{"id":16147,"date":"2021-10-08T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T10:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=16147"},"modified":"2021-10-08T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T10:39:24","slug":"rift-with-congress-prashant-kishor-says-no-quick-fix-solutions-for-deep-rooted-problems-structural-weakness-of-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/rift-with-congress-prashant-kishor-says-no-quick-fix-solutions-for-deep-rooted-problems-structural-weakness-of-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Rift with Congress? Prashant Kishor says \u201cno quick fix solutions for deep-rooted problems &#038; structural weakness of GOP\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political strategist Prashant Kishor on Friday said that those who are hoping for a revival of the Congress in view of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident are in for a \u201cbig disappointment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately there are no quick fix solutions to the deep-rooted problems and structural weakness of GOP,\u201d Kishor wrote on Twitter, criticising the Congress\u2019 functioning.<\/p>\n<p>There have been recent rumours on the possibility that he may join the Congress, and now the tweet appears to be signalling a rift. Kishor had met Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi in July, leading to speculations that he may be part of the party soon.<\/p>\n<p>In Lakhimpur last week, eight people \u2013 including four farmers \u2013 were killed. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi visited the area to meet the families of the victims. Viral videos purportedly showed the people run over by a minister\u2019s car in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political strategist Prashant Kishor on Friday said that those who are hoping for a revival of the Congress in view of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":15635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47,35,119,56,583],"class_list":["post-16147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-congress","tag-prashant-kishor","tag-priyanka-gandhi-vadra","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16149,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147\/revisions\/16149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}