Sunil Kanugolu has additionally been concerned in a number of BJP ballot campaigns prior to now.
New Delhi:
Poll strategist Sunil Kanugolu has but once more confirmed to be the person with the Midas contact, plotting the Congress’ wonderful turnaround in Telangana months after being the architect of the grand previous occasion’s return to energy in Karnataka.
Mr Kanugolu was largely credited for shaping the Congress’ win in Karnataka and was later accorded Cabinet rank within the Siddaramaiah authorities.
This time, Mr Kanugolu together with PCC chief A Revanth Reddy fashioned a formidable pair to chalk out the Congress’ technique to tug down the Okay Chandrashekhar Rao-led BRS authorities that was eying a 3rd time period within the southern state.
The Congress received 64 seats within the 119-member Telangana meeting whereas it suffered crushing defeats within the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
Mr Kanugolu had additionally made forays in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh following a directive from the occasion’s central management however regional satraps Ashok Gehlot and Kamal Nath reportedly weren’t on the identical web page because the ballot strategist.
Ahead of the Rajasthan elections, Mr Kanugolu had made an evaluation concerning the winnability of possible candidates however Mr Gehlot reportedly didn’t comply with his options and introduced in Naresh Arora’s Designboxed to assemble the Congress authorities’s narrative within the run-up to the meeting polls.
Sources say that the success of Mr Kanugolu in Karnataka and Telangana was the results of the free hand given to him and permitting his staff to work freely.
Mr Kanugolu, who hails from Karnataka and is in his early 40s, has been thought of largely because the mind behind the Congress’ narrative in Karnataka with the ‘PayCM’ marketing campaign towards the BJP. In the run-up to the polls in Telangana, he highlighted the alleged corruption of the Okay Chandrashekhar Rao dispensation as a part of Congress’ marketing campaign that appeared to have struck a chord with the individuals.
The campaigns run by the Congress in Karnataka and Telangana have been very related as each highlighted the alleged graft of the ruling dispensation and projected welfare ensures that appeared to have struck an prompt reference to the general public.
Interestingly, Mr Kanugolu has additionally been concerned in a number of BJP ballot campaigns prior to now. In 2018, he labored with the BJP in Karnataka and the occasion managed to turn out to be the only largest occasion with 104 seats.
He had additionally labored on Narendra Modi’s marketing campaign in 2014, in addition to the occasion’s political campaigns in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.
Mr Kanugolu, a former marketing consultant with McKinsey, was additionally related to DMK chief MK Stalin and oversaw the occasion’s ‘Namakku Naame’ (we’re for ourselves) marketing campaign in the course of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In 2021, he additionally labored with AIADMK towards the DMK and led the occasion to win 75 seats within the Tamil Nadu meeting elections.
Mr Kanugolu had joined the Congress final 12 months and labored intently with the Karnataka marketing campaign.
He can be credited with strategising Rahul Gandhi’s cross-country ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Kanyakumari to Kashmir final 12 months.
Having delivered Karnataka and Telangana to the Congress, Mr Kanugolu is more likely to be given extra tasks by the occasion within the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. PTI ASK PYK ANB ANB
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