Karnataka Elections 2023: In the Karnataka meeting elections held on May 10, the Congress received 135 out of 224 seats, claiming a shocking victory. Congress got here up with recent ways, refuted the BJP’s narratives, and utilised corruption as its important election difficulty to tackle the incumbent social gathering. Credit for the state’s seemingly formation of presidency belongs to social gathering leaders, staff, and election strategist Sunil Kanugolu.
Sunil Kanugolu, who carried out the identical duties for the BJP in 2018, developed artistic marketing campaign strategies and had a major impression on the choice of candidates for Congress. The social gathering’s election administration actions for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections shall be led by Sunil Kanugolu.
About Sunil Kangolu, his previous assignments and methods that led to Karanatka’s Congress profitable elections:
Sunil Kanugolu(41) was born within the Ballari district of Karnataka, the place he additionally completed center faculty. According to The Quint, he later resided in Chennai earlier than transferring to Bengaluru.
Despite being a local Telugu speaker, Kanugolu has Karnataka roots and presently resides in Bengaluru, in response to native media reviews.
After working for the BJP, DMK, and AIADMK up to now, Mr Kanugolu joined the Congress final 12 months after intensive discussions with Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. According to an in depth buddy of his, he did so primarily as a result of he wished to tackle a problem and work with a celebration that was near the values he believes in.
The staff additionally contains well-known leaders like P Chidambaram, Mukul Wasnik, Jairam Ramesh, Ok C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Randeep Singh Surjewala along with Kanugolu.
As the president of the BJP’s Association of Billion Minds (ABM), Sunil Kanugolu, who had beforehand collaborated with ballot strategist Prashant Kishor, performed a vital function in Narendra Modi’s election marketing campaign in 2014. He was instrumental within the success of the BJP’s election campaigns in Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Karnataka.
Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, a march that spanned greater than 4,000 km from the southernmost level of India to Jammu and Kashmir, has additionally been linked to the ballot strategist. The grand previous social gathering’s use of the yatra is believed to have contributed to current turning factors in election outcomes.
When his critics had been fast to level out that “corruption was not a big issue in South India,” Mr Kanugolu launched the “PayCM” marketing campaign in Karnataka towards the Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP authorities.
Instead of relying merely on contact centres to gather information, he insists on broad-field surveys, statistics, analytics, and the usage of present expertise to determine tendencies.
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