Karnataka: How ‘4S cards’ played a big game behind the scenes in Congress’s victory and BJP’s defeat

Congress 4S Card In Karnataka Election: karnataka assembly election Congress has performed brilliantly. The Congress has won 135 seats in the 224-member assembly. After defeating the BJP in the elections, the Congress is upbeat about 2024. After this resounding victory, there is a discussion about the four ‘S cards’ of the Congress, which were its key facilitators.

Will discuss these four S cards of Congress, but before that let’s know about them. Two of these top Congress leaders are Karnataka State Congress President DK Shivakumar and former CM Siddaramaiah. The name of these two is doing the rounds in all the circles and they do not need any recognition.

While DK Shivakumar, as the Karnataka state president, breathed new life into the state unit of the party battling with contradictions and divisions, Siddaramaiah as a big leader played an important role in connecting the backward, Dalits and Muslims with the party.

third s card created election strategy

The third S card is election strategist Sunil Kanugolu, who played a key role in the Congress victory. Kanugoli was responsible for getting the survey done, election campaign, planning the strategy including deciding the candidate. He is a member of Congress’s task force for 2024. This task force is a team formed to implement the Congress Udaipur Nav Sankalp.

Kanugoli was also entrusted with the responsibility of garnering support for the Bharat Jodo Yatra under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi. After the victory in Karnataka, now the party has entrusted him with the work for Madhya Pradesh. Born in Bellary, Karnataka, Kanugolu has previously worked for BJP, DMK and AIADMK.

The fourth S card was in the Congress war room

The fourth and most important ‘S card’ among the architects of the party’s victory is Shashikant Senthil, a 44-year-old former IAS officer who headed the Congress war room in Bengaluru. It was Senthil who prepared the script against the Bommai government for corruption in various ways.

It was Senthil’s idea, on the basis of which the Congress launched a series of anti-corruption campaigns targeting the BJP. In this ’40 percent commission government’ was the most important, then the ‘PECM’ campaign targeting Bommai also made a lot of headlines. In this, posters with a QR code containing Bommai’s picture were put up all over Bengaluru. The caption of this poster was given as ‘PACM’.

The posters had followed Bommai to Hyderabad, with banners, “Welcome to 40 per cent commission CM”, also surfaced there when he visited the Telangana capital.

Who is Shashikant Senthil?

Shashikant Senthil, a 2009-batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, hit the headlines in September 2019 when he resigned from his IAS job while serving as the deputy commissioner in Dakshina Kannada district. He had said at the time of his resignation that it was unethical for him to continue with his duty as a public servant in the government at a time when the values ​​of our democracy were being compromised.

Senthil had then said, “I also strongly feel that the coming days will present extremely difficult challenges to the basic fabric of our nation and I look forward to continuing my work of making life better for all by staying outside the IAS.” Will keep.” ,

Joined Congress after 1 year

Narendra Modi Senthil, a staunch opponent of the government’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), traveled across the country after quitting his IAS job. During this he met people opposing CAA and NRC. Senthil, who hails from Tamil Nadu, joined the Congress in November 2020, in the presence of senior Tamil Nadu leader KS Alagiri and the then AICC general secretary Dinesh Gundu Rao.

Came close to Rahul during Bharat Jodo Yatra

The party gave him the first major responsibility in the 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly elections. In this, he got an opportunity to work in the war room of the party in Chennai. The party was impressed by his work here and when the Bharat Jodo Yatra reached Karnataka, he again got the responsibility. Here he was given the task of liaison between Rahul Gandhi and members of civil society. During this, got a chance to come close to Rahul Gandhi.

After this, he got the most challenging task when he got the responsibility of the war room of Congress in Karnataka elections. Senthil and his team worked day and night to chalk out campaign and social media strategies for the Congress. It was the hard work of Senthil, who brought the 40% commission government into the election discourse.

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