Following the start of the state’s first phase of the caste census by the Nitish Kumar government, election strategist Prashant Kishor has turned his focus to the Grand Alliance in Bihar.
Tejashwi Yadav, the deputy chief minister, has alluded to the exercise as “historic” after it was approved by the state cabinet in June of last year. Following the central government’s decision to forbid such an exercise at the national level, the survey in Bihar is expected to involve about 127 million people living in 25 million households throughout 38 districts, according to a previous report by HT.
However, the action has led to more criticism of the Mahagathbandhan government from Prashant Kishor.
“In the name of socialism, poor people in Bihar have been divided. They are not even indulging into caste politics. Even if that would have been the case, then people of that community would have benefited. Lalu (Yadav) ji is not saying that the best from the Yadav community should progress,” Prashant Kishor said at the event.
“What they are saying is that only our own should progress.”
Targeting Lalu Yadav further, he said: “Even if the Yadav community was in focus, 14 per cent of the state’s population would have benefited. This is politics of selfishness.” Nitish Kumar had parted ways with the BJP last year to ally with Lalu Yadav’s RJD yet again.
Meanwhile, Kishor also took a swipe at the Congress’s Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“Rahul Gandhi is on a 3,500 km-long march. For me, kilometres do not matter. I have been walking non-stop since October. But I do not want to show it off as evidence of my physical fitness,” Kishor was quoted as saying by news agency PTI, adding that “Bade log hain (they are extraordinary people).. compared to them, I am a nobody.”
Since announcing his commitment to work for the state’s citizens last year, Prashant Kishor has also organised a statewide Jan-Suraaj foot march. His organisation, IPAC, was responsible for the BJP’s extraordinary electoral triumph in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as well as the victories in state elections of Uddhav Thackeray, M K Stalin, Arvind Kejriwal, Amarinder Singh, Jagan Mohan Reddy, and K Chandrashekar Rao.
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