Prashant Kishor

Prashant Kishor is an Indian political strategist and politician. He came to wider public attention when Citizens for Accountable Governance helped the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party win an absolute majority in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. In 2016 Congress employed him for the 2017 UP Elections.

About Prashant Kishor in brief

Summary Prashant KishorPrashant Kishor is an Indian political strategist and politician. He joined Janata Dal in September 2018. He was expelled from the party on 29 January 2020 for criticizing party head, Nitish Kumar’s, supportive stand on Citizenship Amendment Act. He has worked as an election strategist for BJP, INC, AAP, AITC and DMK. His first major political campaign was in 2011 to help Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat get re-elected to the CM Office for a third time in the Gujarat Assembly Elections 2012. He came to wider public attention when Citizens for Accountable Governance helped the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party win an absolute majority in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

In 2016 Congress employed him for the 2017 UP Elections. However, these elections were a failure for the Congress and Kish or as BJP won more than 300+ seats and Congress could only manage 7 seats. It was alleged that KishOr’s decision to side with the Congress in UP was deemed ill-advised by analysts and politicians alike for the party had been out of power in the state for 27 years.