Amid speculation about him joining the Congress, election strategist Prashant Kishor held talks with ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in Hyderabad over two days.
TRS leader K T Rama Rao confirmed that Kishor's Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) is working for TRS officially.
However, he clarified that the TRS is just working with the I-PAC and not with Prashant Kishor.
"Prashant Kishor has introduced I-PAC to the TRS party and I-PAC is working for us officially. We are not working with Prashant Kishor but we are working with I-PAC," said Rama Rao.
While the contemporary political situation in the country was discussed in his talks with KCR, Kishor is understood to have submitted the details of the surveys done by his team in Telangana.
Kishor's meeting with Rao assumes significance in view of the speculation over the political strategist joining the Congress.
Rao, who is popularly known as KCR, said in March that Kishor is working with him on bringing a 'parivartan' (change) in the entire country.
Both were working together in Telangana also.
Rao had described Kishor as his best friend for the last seven-eight years and praised the latter for his commitment to a cause.
Rao has been working to bring together various non-Bharatiya Janata Party parties together against the saffron party's alleged anti-people policies and to usher in a 'qualitative change' in the country.
Describing Kishor as a brand with proven credentials, Congress general secretary Tariq Anwar on Thursday last said the poll strategist is willing to join the party without any preconditions and his induction would certainly help the party.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Anwar had said, wants to take senior leaders into confidence and seek their opinion on whether Kishor's entry into the party will be beneficial or not and then take a decision on the much speculated matter.
Kishor, who has planned the electoral strategies of various parties, including the Trinamool Congress, AAP and DMK, wants to come into the Congress and help it, Anwar had said.
-- with inputs from ANI
