Bihar Assembly election: Wont contest Bihar polls, will work to strengthen celebration, says Prashant Kishor

In an unique interview with PTI, the previous political strategist additionally stated {that a} “tally of lower than 150 seats” for Jan Suraaj shall be thought-about a defeat.

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“If Jan Suraaj Party wins the Bihar polls, it should have a nationwide influence. The compass of nationwide politics will level in a unique course,” Mr. Kishor asserted.

The Bihar polls shall be held in two phases, on November 6 and November 11, and the counting will happen on November 14.

“The celebration has determined that I mustn’t contest the meeting polls. And due to this fact, the celebration has introduced one other candidate from Raghopur, in opposition to Tejashwi Yadav. It was a call we took within the bigger curiosity of the celebration. If I have been to contest, it might have distracted me from the mandatory organisational work,” Mr. Kishor stated.

Asked what he considered his celebration’s prospects within the elections, the 48-year-old chief stated, “I can say with certainty that we’ll both win handsomely or obtain a drubbing. I’ve been stating on file that I count on a tally of both fewer than 10 seats or greater than 150 seats. There is not any chance of something in between.”

He made the averment when requested whether or not his celebration wish to help the NDA or the INDIA bloc if the elections threw a hung Assembly, terming a fractured mandate as an impossibility.

He, nevertheless, added, “A tally lower than 150, even whether it is 120 or 130, shall be a defeat for me. If we do nicely, we may have the mandate to rework Bihar and make it rely among the many 10 most superior states of the nation. If we don’t do nicely sufficient, it might imply the individuals haven’t proven sufficient confidence in us, and we should proceed to hold on with our politics of the road and society (samaj aur sadak ki rajneeti).”