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Who is Prashant Kishor?

Prashant Kishor is a political strategist and business tactician. Kishor has worked as a political strategist for BJP, INC, AAP, YSRCP , DMK and TMC. Prashant Kishor is a sought-after Indian election strategist. He came to the fore when his political campaign to help then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi was successful in the 2012 Assembly Elections.Kishor initially worked with the United Nations for eight years as he was trained in public health before entering Indian politics. After the 2014 elections, he parted roads with Modi and worked with Nitish Kumar in 2015 to help him win a third term as Bihar Chief Minister in the 2015 Assembly Elections. The Congress party hired him for the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections. Kishor was appointed as an advisor of All India Trinamool Congress for the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and as DMK strategist for Tamil Nadu elections.
 
Campaign for Modi
 
The 44-year-old strategist gained public attention when he created the election campaign group Citizens for Accountable Governance (CAG), which helped the Bharatiya Janata Party win the 2014 Lok Sabha election with an absolute majority.
 
He came up with innovative advertising campaigns for PM Modi, such as Chai pe Charcha, 3D rallies, Run for Unity, Manthan, and other social media programmes.
 
Post-2014 Lok Sabha elections
 
Post-2014, he converted CAG into Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC). Along with Bihar, Kishor and his I-PAC team worked with Captain Amarinder Singh in Punjab, YSRCP's Jagan Mohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh.
 
Till now, the only time his strategy did not work has been the 2017 Uttar Pradesh election when he worked with Indian National Congress.
 
He was also the strategist for the Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhi Legislative Assembly election where the party was able to win with a majority of 62 out of 70 seats in 2020.
 
Currently, he's working with DMK's MK Stalin in Tamil Nadu and AITC's Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.
 
Joining parties
 
In 2018, Kishor joined Janata Dal (United) but was expelled in 2020 for criticising Nitish Kumar's supportive stand on Citizenship Amendment Act. Kishor was appointed as an advisor of All India Trinamool Congress for the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. His astute strategy helped TMC again form the government. In the same year, DMK chief M K Stalin signed up Kishor as a party strategist for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, in which the party won 159 seats and Stalin was election the chief minister for the first time.
 
In March 2021, Kishor was appointed as the principal advisor to Amarinder Singh at a fee of Re 1 and given the status equivalent to a Cabinet Minister. The Punjab Assembly Elections are scheduled to be held in 2022.

Prashant Kishor's retirement as political strategy

After the win of TMC and DMK in 2021 assembly polls, Prashant Kishor declared that he was quitting as an election strategist. In an interview with some new channels, Kishor said, "I do not want to continue what I am doing. I have done enough. Time for me to take a break and do something else in life. I want to quit this space."

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Stock market Update on Thursday, March 28: Shares of Bajaj Finance and Bajaj Finserv rallied over 3 per cent on buzz of Bajaj Housing Finance IPO.

Updated On: 30 Jul 2024 | 3:01 PM IST

Political strategist turned activist Prashant Kishor on Saturday termed as "excessive" the two years' imprisonment awarded to Rahul Gandhi

Updated On: 25 Mar 2023 | 3:01 PM IST

The IPAC founder, who is on a padayatra in his home state Bihar, was asked by journalists in Motihari about parallels, if any, he saw between his own effort and the marathon march of Gandhi

Updated On: 07 Jan 2023 | 11:18 PM IST

Kishor said, "Nitish has announced to contest elections under Tejashwi's leadership. He has accepted the fact that the election cannot be won on his face or by his party JD(U) "

Updated On: 17 Dec 2022 | 6:53 PM IST

Political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor on Friday claimed that BJP's victory in the recently held Kurhani bypoll was a reflection of people's anger against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar

Updated On: 09 Dec 2022 | 11:00 PM IST

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar will be gheraoed if he fails to fulfil his promise of providing '1 mn govt jobs' to youths of the state, political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor has said

Updated On: 20 Nov 2022 | 10:01 AM IST

'The CM, during his Independence Day speech at Gandhi Maidan, had promised that the grand alliance government aimed at providing jobs to 10 lakh people in the government sector'

Updated On: 19 Nov 2022 | 11:22 PM IST

Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on Friday launched a stinging attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issues of price rise and lack of industrial development

Updated On: 21 Oct 2022 | 7:48 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar refused to comment on the claim made by political strategist Prashant Kishor that the former was still in touch with the BJP and said he keeps talking rubbish

Updated On: 21 Oct 2022 | 4:15 PM IST

Political strategist Prashant Kishor claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is in touch with the BJP and that he may go for a tie-up with the party again if situation demands

Updated On: 19 Oct 2022 | 11:23 PM IST

Hitting back at Nitish Kumar, Kishor said that the Bihar chief minister has become "delusional" and "politically isolated" and thus speaks things other than what he actually means

Updated On: 09 Oct 2022 | 4:32 PM IST

Hitting back at Nitish Kumar, political strategist Prashant Kishor said that the Bihar CM has become "delusional" and "politically isolated" and thus speaks things other than what he actually means

Updated On: 09 Oct 2022 | 1:48 PM IST

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday claimed that poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor had asked him to merge his JD(U) with the Congress.

Updated On: 08 Oct 2022 | 7:25 PM IST

Prashant Kishor on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and claimed that he spurned a recent request by the latter to "lead" the Janata Dal (United)

Updated On: 04 Oct 2022 | 11:16 PM IST

JD(U) accused its former national vice president Prashant Kishor of working "on behalf of the BJP" and wondered about the source of funding for his much publicised 'Jan Suraaj' campaign

Updated On: 03 Oct 2022 | 11:18 PM IST

Kishor began a 3,500-kilometre long padayatra' from the Gandhi Ashram in Bihar's West Champaran district, the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, as part of his Jan Suraj campaign

Updated On: 02 Oct 2022 | 5:24 PM IST

"I had tried to enquire from him (Sudhakar) about his grievances. Instead of replying, he stormed out," said Nitish Kumar

Updated On: 14 Sep 2022 | 9:28 PM IST

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not comfortable in the alliance with the BJP and that is why he moved from one political formation to the other

Updated On: 10 Aug 2022 | 8:24 PM IST

Election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor said the findings of the survey must be made public and the data should be used for formulating policies to help the state's downtrodden sections

Updated On: 29 Jun 2022 | 6:47 AM IST

Election strategist-turned-politician, Prashant Kishor, on Thursday said prohibition in Bihar has been a complete failure but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar "does not want to accept this reality.

Updated On: 02 Jun 2022 | 11:44 PM IST