Meet the man behind Congress' historic win in Karnataka Elections 2023

While local issues were at the core of the Congress campaign and its historic win of 135 seats in the 224-member assembly, it was this man who gave the party an edge – 41-year-old consultant Sunil Kanugolu, who drove the campaign, swaying public opinion in favour of the Congress. With him was another backroom boy – All India Congress Committee (AICC) war room in-charge Sasikanth Senthil. Kanugolu — a former associate of the better-known poll strategist Prashant Kishor — works from Bengaluru. His father is Kannadiga while his mother is Telugu. He studied engineering as an undergraduate and went on to get two postgraduate degrees – MS in finance and an MBA. He worked with management consultancy firm McKinsey before returning to India to manage political parties’ campaigns.

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[me]

53% of rural people Karnataka voted for the Congress guarantee card not for anybody..Harsh truth

[rakeshramachandra]

Am from rural karnataka khangress won becoz of freebies, and lack of leader in BJP. When it comes to corruption nobody match the khangress.

[subhradas]

I still remember when Rahul used to say in 2016 Paytm means pay to Modi. Now imagine your life without Paytm, phone pe and Google pay. Imagine your life without Jio and the Internet. But u curse Ambani every now and then. 😂😂😂😂

[AZ-pgvd]

People voted for Congress because of guarantees but seeing how bad congress is implementing it, people are very sad and regretting for voting Congress

[prishaaneha]

If given more money, the same people will design strategy against Congress...soon...😅

[Kingkiyan]

Congress didnt come to power because of there strength..its because of no local bjp ledership

[rdnadig]

Talakadu Sand price was rs 4500/- to 6000/- per truck before siddu.
As soon as he came to power it went up to 25, 000/- per trip.
His late son was the kingpin in this controlled increase in price.
Nidderamaiah is one of the worst & corruption person, Karnataka ever had.

[seanvaradhan]

Congratulations and thank you for listening to George Soros. Proud to see you making Congress the King in Karnataka. Please keep going until the score is George Soros-1 and India -0. We really need that Pappu in that PM post. India is flying too much high in the International diaspora. Proud to see that we have solution to break this within India.

[amitchirania]

If congress doesn't give what is promised these rascals are also responsible

[muniswamacharyn]

No strategist need necessary if the incumbent Govt delivers goods. In Karnataka BJP's vote share intact but JDS vote share shrinked drastically to make way for congress. With that the grand FREEBIES offered by congress did the trick!

[venkymahadevappa]

They started looting state with pappu guidance 😅😅😅

[krusr]

People voted for Congress lies, freebies and gift card but now people realized their mistake

[Human-nogj]

If announcing freebies without any commonsense is strategy then I am Bill Gates. 😂😂😂

[naveenananad]

Give first free electricity and free bus fair, . Making Karnataka people chuthiyas

[coloursnotflying]

what strategy, people voted because of state bjp failures, caste politics, congress is taking votes since independence Ike this fooling people.

[NarenHYD]

By the end of congress term, karnataka state will have an additional burden of 3 lakhs crores on them for there mistake.

[mandeepjain]

Nothing, people of karnataka fed up with price raise this is the main reason for congress govt

[Ukauu]

Plz add free alcohol and free petrol in 2024 manifesto.

[dopermine]

Victory behind congress win is poor performance of else

[timestuber]

There has to be change in State and Local elections for a healthy democracy. Having said that 40% was the coolest bluff in modern election history.