‘Bodily Drained, Mentally Retired’: Prashant Kishor Takes Jibe At Nitish Kumar

Claiming that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was “bodily drained and mentally retired”, political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on Thursday asserted that the JD(U) should not win even one seat within the meeting polls due later this 12 months.

Kishor, who hopes his personal outfit, Jan Suraaj Social gathering, will make a splash within the elections, additionally stated he has deliberate a rally in April “which might break all data when it comes to turnout”.

Speaking to reporters, he stated, “Nitish Kumar has managed to carry on to the seat of energy whereas switching alliances. This allows him to be the CM even when the JD(U) has a small variety of seats.”

Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the BJP in 2013, solely to return 4 years later, after having shared energy with the RJD between 2015 and 2017. In 2022, he once more crossed over to the RJD-helmed Mahagathbandhan however was again in NDA final 12 months.

“To interrupt this cycle, and to make sure that the arrow (JDU’s ballot image) doesn’t float with the lotus (BJP) nor burn vivid with the lantern (RJD), I enchantment to the people who they vote in a fashion that the JD(U) doesn’t win even one seat. Solely then would we be rid of the chief minister, who’s bodily drained and mentally retired,” stated Kishor.

The previous JD(U) nationwide vp additionally lambasted the BJP for “having fun with energy whereas utilizing Nitish Kumar as a masks” and alleged that “loot of public cash and assuaging some estranged castes” have been the intentions behind the cupboard growth on Wednesday “with hardly six months left for polls”.

Claiming that the individuals have been fed up with the NDA in addition to the opposition helmed by the RJD, which was “answerable for jungle raj”, Kishor stated he plans to carry “Badlo Bihar rally” on April 11.

“We’ve written to the district administration in Patna, asking for permission to carry the rally on April 11. I wager that the turnout will break all data. Although we additionally foresee the potential for the jittery within the ruling dispensation attempting to pave hurdles by denying permission,” stated the 47-year-old, who was just lately arrested whereas on a quick to press the demand for cancellation of BPSC exams.

Kishor was additionally requested concerning the buzz generated by the chief minister’s son Nishant, who has of late been sustaining that his father was “100%” match and deserved one other time period in workplace, triggering speculations that the JD(U) supremo’s reclusive offspring might take the political plunge himself.

The Jan Suraaj Social gathering founder replied: “I don’t wish to say a lot about Nishant since he’s not in public life. However I problem his father to spell out the names of ministers within the state cupboard with out a bit of paper. If Nitish Kumar thus demonstrates his psychological soundness, I’d hand over politics and begin working for him.”