WILL ALL OF PRASHANT KISHOR’S CLIENTS COME ALONG?

New Delhi: Prashant Kishor has worked with many parties of the country. He started his work with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and since then he has been working continuously with anti-BJP parties. Right now his talks are going on with the Congress and if he joins the Congress and takes up the responsibility of making the Congress contest elections in 2024 general elections, the first question will be whether all the Opposition parties he has worked with, will stand with him? Will Kishor be able to unite all the opposition parties and form a common front? This question is pertinent because two of Kishor’s existing clients and one potential client is finding it extremely hard to share electoral space with Congress and it will be very difficult to bring all three together.

Although Trinamool Congress signed a joint statement of opposition against communal violence in the past, both Arvind Kejriwal and K Chandrashekhar Rao stayed away from it. Keep in mind that Prashant Kishor’s company I-Pack has an agreement with Trinamool Congress till 2026. He also worked for Kejriwal’s party in Delhi and he is in talks of working for Telangana Rashtra Samithi for next year’s assembly elections.

Then there was talk of TRS and Congress alliance, which Congress incharge Manickam Tagore has denied. So, it is very difficult to bring these three parties stand on the same stage as Congress. Apart from these three, there is another leader with whom Prashant Kishor has a very close relationship. PK has worked for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and was associated with Nitish during his worst times. Nitish was trying for a new alliance after quitting the BJP and losing the 2014 Lok Sabha elections badly. At that time, Nitish had made a joint alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress to contest the elections.

Right now Nitish Kumar’s party is in sync with the BJP. But there are two years in the Lok Sabha elections and in politics the period of two years is considered as eternity. Prashant’s fifth client is Jagan Mohan Reddy. He is neutral towards both BJP and Congress but considering the wounds Congress has inflicted on him, it is very difficult for him to fall in line with Congress. In this way, there are a total of five clients of Prashant’s, who would find it extremely difficult to see in the same light as Congress.

But Prashant has been working to make possible, the impossible. If he does this, the election of 2024 will be very different. However, other clients of Prashant Kishor like DMK, Shiv Sena, RJD etc. are already with Congress.