“Bihar should prepare for a few years of lackluster governance,” tweeted Prashant Kishor.
Patna:
Fervent critic of Nitish Kumar, electoral strategist and former JD (U) leader Prashant Kishor, today ‘congratulated’ him on his swearing-in ceremony for a fourth consecutive term with a barbed wire tweet. “Kudos to BJP-appointed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his swearing-in ceremony. With a tired and politically demeaned leader as CM, Bihar should prepare for a few years of lackluster governance,” the report read. tweet.
Mr Kishor – the architect of the Chief Minister’s 2015 electoral victory in the Grand Alliance with Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress – had sided with his detractors soon after joining Janata Dal United, where he was the MP and a close associate of Nitish Kumar.
But his independent opinions and criticism of the state government’s performance paved the way for his expulsion in January.
Since the lockdown began, he had been one of the chief minister’s sharpest criticisms of his handling of the migrant crisis.
Last March, Mr Kishor tweeted a video of migrant workers locked up, crying and begging to be released.
Another chilling image of official efforts to protect people from the coronavirus outbreak – poor migrants who have come from various parts of the country after suffering numerous hardships are subjected to this heartbreaking arrangement of social distancing and quarantine by Nitish Kumar, “Mr. Kishor tweeted about his former political mentor, with the hashtag #NitishMustQuit.
During the second phase of the lockdown in April, he criticized the chief minister for his objection to moving around 300 buses from Uttar Pradesh to students stranded in Kota in Rajashthan.
When the BJP’s inaction against Chirag Paswan deeply shocked the chief minister, a section of JD (U) leaders and Mr. Kumar’s deputy Sushil Modi suggested that party leader Lok Janshakti was supported by the electoral strategist.
Mr. Kishor had firmly denied the allegation.
“Firstly, I have nothing to do with Bihar politics in the current Assembly elections. Second, my last meeting with Chirag took place at Nitish Kumar’s home in his presence,” he told GalacticGaming .
“This is a deliberate strategy to deceive Nitish Kumar, who had to see through the BJP’s game plan,” said Mr Kishor, who designed the campaign for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 but fell out. later with the BJP because of the differences with Amit Shah.
“Can the leaders of the BJP Bihar explain who was holding the seat-sharing talks with Chirag?” Wasn’t it Amit Shah and JP Nadda? Isn’t it a fact that Chirag had several sessions with Amit Shah and Nadda before making his decision, “he added.
After the disastrous performance of JD (U) in the elections, a section of leaders admitted that the loss of Prashant Kishor had harmed the party.
Slipping from its 2015 score of 71 seats, JD (U) won just 43 seats in Bihar, ceding the state alliance’s pole position to BJP.
If Prashant Kishore had been there, the campaign could have been run more efficiently and successfully, they privately admitted.
