Prashant Kishor who guided the Trinamool (and, in Tamil Nadu, the DMK-Congress alliance) to victory over the BJP (and its southern ally, the AIADMK) and then he wanted to “quit” It will be interesting to see how well I-PAC and its new nine-member leadership team can function without Mr Kishor, and how efficiently it can win elections for Trinamool and its other clients.
The contract extension will run till the next round of Assembly elections in Bengal, by which time key states, including UP, Gujarat and Karnataka, and the country would have also held elections. It comes a little over a week after senior Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee told reporters the Trinamool is planning on “expanding the organisation outside Bengal”. The party’s new General Secretary – Abhishek Banerjee – made similar comments after his promotion; Mr Banerjee, who is Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, was key in bringing Mr Kishor on board to mastermind the Trinamool’s Bengal campaign.
Last month, after election results in Bengal, Tamil Nadu and other states were declared, Prashant Kishor told NDTV he was done and wanted to “quit this (poll strategy) space”.
Comments”I do not want to continue what I am doing. I have done enough. It is time for me to take a break and do something else in life. I want to quit this space,” Mr Kishor had said.
