Prashant Kishor
Prashant Kishor decides to quit as poll strategist while basking in glory of Trinamool win
New Delhi/Kolkata: Election strategist Prashant Kishore had predicted the future correctly last year when he had tweeted that the Bharatiya Janata Party will not cross the double-digit mark in the West Bengal Assembly polls and the latest vote count figures are echoing the same as the lotus brigade is yet to tally even 80 seats in the state.
Prashant is considered as the one of the key men behind West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress party's strong show in the Assembly polls as figures reflected that the ruling party is ahead in 213 seats.
The BJP is way behind the double digit mark.
Prashant Kishor had tweeted: "For all the hype AMPLIFIED by a section of supportive media, in reality BJP will struggle to CROSS DOUBLE DIGITS in #WestBengal PS: Please save this tweet and if BJP does any better I must quit this space!"
For all the hype AMPLIFIED by a section of supportive media, in reality BJP will struggle to CROSS DOUBLE DIGITS in #WestBengal
— Prashant Kishor (@PrashantKishor) December 21, 2020
PS: Please save this tweet and if BJP does any better I must quit this space!
Prashant Kishor, however, on Sunday said he has decided to quit as an election strategist.
"I do not want to continue what I am doing. I have done enough. Time for me to take a break and do something else in life. I want to quit this space," Kishor told TV channels.
Speaking on rejoining politics, he said: "I am a failed politician. I have to go back and see what I have to do."
On the day of TMC's massive victory, he did not mince a word on the Election Commission.
"We went through hell. The Election Commission was blatantly partial and made our campaign difficult. We have been confident about doing very well and the TMC winning more than people were willing to give. The BJP was trying to build up massive propaganda that they are winning Bengal," Kishor told NDTV on Bengal polls.
"Mr Modi's (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) popularity won't mean BJP will win all elections," the poll strategist added.
He told India Today TV that the Election Commission was favouring BJP by deliberately staging an eight-phase election in Bengal amid Covid19. He said they did it so that BJP could gain advantage of campaigning between each phase.
He said never in the past had EC conducted polls in a single district of a state in four phases like they did in West Bengal.
The TMC will return to power in West Bengal for the third straight term.
In 2011, Mamata Banerjee had dislodged the Left rule to form the government for the first time and then returned to power for a second term in 2016.
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