Poll strategist Prashant Kishor – who is working with West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to work out a winning strategy for her party for the Assembly elections of 2021 – tweeted on Tuesday criticising his party for voting in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Kishor is a senior leader of Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United that is part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Earlier, Kishor had tweeted on the National Register for Citizens (NRC) attacking the Centre.
In his tweet on Tuesday, Kishor wrote, “Disappointed to see JDU supporting #CAB that discriminates right of citizenship on the basis of religion.” He criticised the move saying it was “incongruous” for a party that mentions the word “secular” thrice on the first page of its constitution. Kishor also wondered how a party whose leaders followed Gandhian ideals could support the move.
In his earlier tweet on the NRC, Kishor had wondered whether BJP had consulted chief ministers of 15 plus states in India – which have non-BJP chief ministers – on its implementation.
Kishor had tweeted then: “15 plus states with more than 55% of India’s population have non-BJP Chief Ministers. Wonder how many of them are consulted and are on-board for NRC in their respective states!!”
