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Prashant Kishore

During 'Jan Samwad' with common people in Yogapatti block of West Champaran on Friday, Kishor said that the 32 km road connecting Nawalpur to district headquarter Bettiah was not constructed for 15 yr

Updated On: 05 Nov 2022 | 11:00 AM IST

Continuing his tirade against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor on Wednesday said that he would not work for the JD(U) supremo even if the latter "vacates the CM's chair" for him. Kishor had on Tuesday claimed that he spurned a recent request by Kumar to "lead" the Janata Dal (United). Addressing a gathering at Jamunia village in West Champaran district during the day, as part on his ongoing 3,500-km-long 'Jan Suraaj' padyatra, Kishor said, "When I met Nitish Kumar a few days ago, he asked me to re-join JD(U) and work with him. 'You are my political heir', the CM told me asking to withdraw my campaign." "I categorically told the CM that I will not work with him even if he (Nitish Kumar) makes me his political heir or.vacates the chair of CM for me. I said no....I have made a promise to the peopleit can't be changed," the 45-year-old former national vice-president of JD(U) added. Kishor was inducted into the JD(U) in 2018 by Kumar.

Updated On: 05 Oct 2022 | 10:31 PM IST

Former political strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday said that Congress's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' should have started from Gujarat or any other BJP-ruled state. He was speaking on the sidelines of a program where he met local leaders and activists supporting the cause of the separate Vidarbha state. "It would have been better had the Congress started its Bharat Jodo Yatra from Gujarat where elections are due later this year, or other BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh," Kishor told PTI when asked about the ongoing campaign. The Yatra, led by Rahul Gandhi, began from Tamil Nadu. Notably, there was a buzz earlier this year about Kishor joining the Congress, but he later said that he declined the offer to head its election strategy. Interacting with pro-Vidarbha supporters, he called for a united effort by people of the region to realize the dream of a separate state. Former BJP MLA Ashish Deshmukh had organized the programme to formulate a strategy to achieve ...

Updated On: 20 Sep 2022 | 5:15 PM IST

Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor hit back at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday, a day after the JD(U) supremo accused him of trying to help BJP and not knowing "ABC" of politics and governance. Kishor, who has launched "Jan Suraaj", a campaign that is likely to evolve into a political party, said it was "laughable" for Kumar to issue "certificates" given that he was with the BJP till a month ago. "Age is catching up with him. If he has divined that I want to help the BJP, it is his intellectual greatness (vidvata)," Kishor told reporters here sarcastically. "Nitish Kumar must be the only educated person around to have said people like me do not know ABC. He knows from A to Z. He should share the knowledge with NITI Aayog which keeps counting Bihar among the least-developed states," the IPAC founder said, tongue in cheek. Kishor also said that if Kumar was able to deliver on his promise of creating 10 lakh jobs, which he made after ruling the state fo

Updated On: 08 Sep 2022 | 11:28 PM IST

"Nitish ji had recently told officials of road construction department that they must tell the people about the condition of roads in the state", Kishor tweeted

Updated On: 23 Jun 2022 | 7:45 PM IST

The Jan Suraaj campaign is kicking off from Mahatma Gandhi Ashram in West Champaran district on October 2 this year and he will do a Padyatra of 3,000 km across Bihar

Updated On: 26 May 2022 | 9:13 AM IST

Event could make or break party and people concerned are conscious of this

Updated On: 12 May 2022 | 11:05 PM IST

The proposal to rope Kishor into the Congress was enthusiastically backed by Priyanka Gandhi, but supporters within the party owing allegiance to Rahul Gandhi were less than enthusiastic about it

Updated On: 26 Apr 2022 | 10:47 PM IST

Amid speculation about Prashant Kishor joining the Congress, the election strategist held talks with ruling TRS president and Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao over two days

Updated On: 24 Apr 2022 | 8:03 PM IST

In an important presentation to the Congress top brass, Kishor has in his theme of "Reincarnation of Congress" talked about 'Preserving the soul, Creating a new body'

Updated On: 23 Apr 2022 | 1:30 PM IST

IPAC led by political strategist Prashant Kishor has an agenda of its own and may be betraying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Congress' Dinesh Gundu Rao said

Updated On: 22 Nov 2021 | 5:18 PM IST

NCP chief Sharad Pawar is working to unite all opposition leaders, party spokesperson Nawab Malik said while commenting on a meeting of Pawar with political strategist Prashant Kishor

Updated On: 21 Jun 2021 | 4:20 PM IST

Earlier, Sharad Pawar has met poll strategist Prashant Kishor, for the second time in ten days

Updated On: 21 Jun 2021 | 3:38 PM IST

Barring occasional interviews with the news media, he works rather quietly in his election war room or is seated obscurely among throngs of party workers and leaders listening intently to them

Updated On: 02 May 2021 | 5:29 PM IST

Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who guided the TMC to what is likely to be a spectacular victory, announced Sunday he is "quitting this space", accusing EC of being an "extension of BJP".

Updated On: 02 May 2021 | 5:23 PM IST

The BJP took a dig at poll strategist Prashant Kishor over his appointment as Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh's principal advisor

Updated On: 02 Mar 2021 | 4:47 PM IST

On Thursday, Ministry of Home Affairs asked Ministry of Civil Aviation to find out

Updated On: 24 Apr 2020 | 5:08 PM IST

Along with Kishor, the JD(U) also expelled diplomat-turned-politician Pavan Varma

Updated On: 30 Jan 2020 | 11:34 PM IST

Trinamool Congress, he is said to be in talks with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and the Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka

Updated On: 17 Jun 2019 | 3:33 PM IST