Prashant Kishor, the Janata Dal United vice-president who has worked out winning strategies for several political bigwigs including Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar, will now be political consultant for Aam Admi Party ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections next year.
Kishor’s firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) has also taken up assignment with Trinamool Congress earlier this year in West Bengal to strategise for the party for the Assembly elections of 2021.
Delhi Assembly elections are due early next year, and a tweet from AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said this morning, “Happy to share that @indianpac is coming on-board with us. Welcome aboard!”
In reply, I-PAC tweeted that they were happy too to work together acknowledging AAP as the toughest opponent they had faced. During the Punjab elections, I-PAC was hired by Congress as their strategist to counter AAP’s massive social media campaigning. Although Congress had won the election, AAP had given a tough fight.
However, it is Prashant Kishor being a part of the Janata Dal United that makes the political ramifications so interesting. JDU is one of the major allies of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the JDU even voted for the Citizenship Amendment Bill in both houses of the Parliament.
But Kishor has expressed concern over the Bill and had said that the National Register for Citizens (NRC) along with the CAB is a “lethal combo”. In his latest tweet yesterday he wrote: “The majority prevailed in Parliament. Now beyond judiciary, the task of saving the soul of India is on 16 Non-BJP CMs as it is the states who have to operationalise these acts. 3 CMs (Punjab/Kerala/WB) have said NO to #CAB and #NRC. Time for others to make their stand clear.”
JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar has not said anything directly against Kishor. But party MP Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, without naming Kishor said, that if anyone wanted to leave the party he is free to do so. Another MP Rajiv Ranjan said that the decision of supporting BJP in passing the Bill was taken by party chief and thus there was no question of going back on it. Kishor had joined JD(U) after his firm I-PAC had helped the party to win the 2015 Bihar elections.
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