Time to go to Real Masters: Prashant Kishor chooses Bihar for ‘political plunge’

New Delhi: A post by election strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday set the Twitter space buzzing with speculations on his likely political plunge from Bihar. He tweeted, ‘it was time to go back to the real masters’.

Prashant Kishor said that last 10 years were a rollercoaster ride in politics and he is now turning the page and it was time to better understand the issues of people by being among the people.

“And, the place for beginning this journey would be Bihar,” he said.

This comes soon after his failed attempts to join the Congress party. He reportedly wanted a free hand while the party wanted him to work within a certain ambit as many leaders raised questions over ‘commitment to an ideology’. Before failed bid with Congress, PK also sought to mobilise other opposition parties for creating a political front against the BJP-led government. He sought veteran leaders including Sharad Pawar, worked with Mamata Banerjee and attempted to build a united front but it didn’t materialise.

My quest to be a meaningful participant in democracy & help shape pro-people policy led to a 10yr rollercoaster ride!

As I turn the page, time to go to the Real Masters, THE PEOPLE,to better understand the issues & the path to “जन सुराज”-Peoples Good Governance

शुरुआत #बिहार से

— Prashant Kishor (@PrashantKishor) May 2, 2022

Kishor’s cryptic tweet lays bare his intentions of launching his own political front, something the strategist has never ruled out in his previous interviews. Even his tweet says that he want to be a ‘meaningful contributor to democracy’.

Earlier also, after breaking away from Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), he had hinted of launching a political front. He had launched an initiative called ‘Baat Bihar ki’ to gauge public opinion.

Kishor has worked with many political parties and has been powerful campaign manager in all his stints. Starting with Narendra Modi’s campaign in 2014, he went to Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) and got inducted in the party at a senior position owing to his ‘closeness’ with the Bihar CM. He witnessed a meteoric rise in the party and got elevated to national vice-preisdent within months but all of a sudden, he was shown the door after he publicly denounced party’s stand on CAA-NRC.

Later, he went to Mamata Banerjee’s TMC and mounted an unassailable campaign centring around people’s agenda and it showed up in results. Didi returned with a clear majority but the strategist fell out with top leaders and again had to leave the party.