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Prashant Kishor wants to quit poll strategising, says 'have had enough'
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh
PUBLISHED ON MAY 02, 2021 04:24 PM IST
'Good., bad, ugly, I have done my bit. It's a tough job. I have been doing this for 8-9 years," Prashant Kishor says Assembly elections 2021 become Kishor's swan song as an election strategist.
How the TMC is fighting the BJP juggernaut in Bengal
By Barkha Dutt
UPDATED ON DEC 25, 2020 05:36 PM IST
The Trinamool Congress has made dramatic changes to its organisational power structure and launched two key mass outreach programmes
Prashant Kishor spotlights BJP’s ‘struggle’ in Bengal polls, party reacts
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By Tanmay Chatterjee
UPDATED ON DEC 21, 2020 03:16 PM IST
This was the first such statement from Prashant Kishor, who avoids the media and does not comment on the work done by him and his company, that has been targeted not only by dissidents in the Trinamool but BJP leaders as well.
‘Will leave this space if...’: Prashant Kishor’s prediction ahead of Bengal assembly polls
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Prashasti Singh
UPDATED ON DEC 21, 2020 12:19 PM IST
In the upcoming assembly elections scheduled to be held next year, the BJP seeks to put an end to the nearly decade-long rule of the TMC in the state.
Mamata Banerjee in north Bengal to boost party’s morale, counter BJP
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON DEC 14, 2020 08:17 PM IST
That the Trinamool is jittery with north Bengal was also evident when the party’s youth wing president Abhishek Banerjee, CM Banerjee’s nephew, and election strategist Prashant Kishor rushed to north Bengal in October to iron out differences in the ranks.
TMC says more than 10-lakh people participated in ‘Mark Yourself safe from BJP’ campaign
Kolkata | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Shankhyaneel Sarkar
UPDATED ON NOV 18, 2020 04:17 PM IST
The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal had launched the campaign on October 23 to inform people about the alleged wrongdoings of the BJP in the country before the 2021 state polls.
TMC MLAs question Prashant Kishor; rebel says Mamata Banerjee no more in control
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON NOV 17, 2020 09:31 PM IST
There’s resentment among some MLAs in TMC that organisational decisions have been left to Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and Prashant Kishor.
Prashant Kishor’s I-PAC feels the heat of TMC veterans
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By Joydeep Thakur
UPDATED ON NOV 03, 2020 08:20 AM IST
While one MLA was subtle in attacking Prashant Kishor’s agency I-PAC, another warned that it would be disastrous for a political party if it is dictated by another organisation.
Abhishek Banerjee, Prashant Kishor hit the road to stop infighting in TMC
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By Tanmay Chatterjee
PUBLISHED ON OCT 15, 2020 01:55 PM IST
Abhishek Banerjee and Prashant Kishor discreetly held meetings with leaders from five north Bengal districts at a hotel in Siliguri on Monday and Tuesday while they met legislators, MPs and officer bearers from Hooghly district at Kishor’s office in Kolkata.
In 2021 polls, TMC prepares to regain its lost ground in ‘Jangalmahal’
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By Joydeep Thakur
UPDATED ON SEP 13, 2020 11:46 AM IST
The TMC is preparing a three-pronged attack in a bid to take on the BJP, which has made deep inroads into the tribal-dominated areas and also swept all four seats there in 2019 parliamentary polls
Prashant Kishor’s team asks select Left leaders to join TMC. This followed
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By Tanmay Chatterjee
UPDATED ON SEP 04, 2020 04:07 PM IST
Five senior CPI(M) leaders, including a former information technology minister in the erstwhile Left government and a sitting legislator, told HT that they were contacted by Kishor’s team in August and offered “better career prospects in the ruling party”
Assembly polls in Bihar unlikely amid Covid-19, says Prashant Kishor
Hindustan Times, Patna | By Arun Kumar | Edited by Sabir Hussain
PUBLISHED ON JUL 29, 2020 03:59 PM IST
Prashant Kishor said that Bihar was yet to get Covid-19 pandemic could worsen in the days to come.
Time to fight Covid-19, not polls: Prashant Kishor to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com| Edited by: Harshit Sabarwal
UPDATED ON JUL 11, 2020 01:09 PM IST
Assembly elections in Bihar are due in October-November but no official announcement about the schedule has been made by the Election Commission of India till now.
‘More than 6,000 Covid-19 cases, but Bihar discussing elections’: Prashant Kishor’s jibe at Nitish Kumar
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi
UPDATED ON JUN 14, 2020 02:37 PM IST
Nitish Kumar is seeking seventh term as Bihar chief minister since 2005. The elections are due in the state later this year.
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh bypolls, Congress intensifies social media campaign
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Ranjan| Edited by Sabir Hussain
UPDATED ON JUN 03, 2020 07:46 PM IST
The Congress has stepped up its social media campaign amid reports that poll strategist Prashant Kishor has refused to work with the party for the bypolls.
Govt to probe if Prashant Kishor took cargo flight to Kolkata, he denies charge
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Anisha Dutta
UPDATED ON APR 25, 2020 02:38 AM IST
Denying the allegation,election strategist Prashant Kishor said the media reports are false. “I have not been to any airport after March 19. If anyone has any information contrary to this, they must put the details in the public domain.”
Did Prashant Kishor fly to Kolkata during lockdown? Centre begins probe
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Anisha Dutta
UPDATED ON APR 24, 2020 03:24 PM IST
The enquiry began following news reports alleging that the election strategist had been summoned by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to handle the state government’s response over its tussle with the central government regarding actions taken to tackle coronavirus situation in the state.
News updates from Hindustan Times at 5 pm: ‘Where is your dignity now?’, Prashant Kishor’s latest jibe at Nitish Kumar has Kota connect and all the latest news
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON APR 19, 2020 04:56 PM IST
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‘Where is your dignity now?’: Prashant Kishor’s latest jibe at Nitish Kumar has Kota connect
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON APR 19, 2020 05:24 PM IST
Covid-19: Prashant Kishore tweeted a question to his former mentor along with a photo of what looked like a permission letter to Bharatiya Janata Party legislator to take his vehicle from Nawada to Kota to get back his son.
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Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAR 30, 2020 05:04 PM IST
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‘Frightening picture’: Prashant Kishor tweets video of migrants crying, begging
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAR 30, 2020 04:13 PM IST
Thousands of migrant workers have walked hundreds of kilometres from big cities along with their children back to their villages after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the lockdown on March 24.
TMC on course correction drive in Bengal with multi-pronged approach
Hindustan Times, Kolkata | By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
PUBLISHED ON MAR 08, 2020 03:09 PM IST
The course correction drive has four aspects --- a ‘constituency-specific approach’, a three-tier system of surveillance on party leaders and the administration to check malpractices and highhandedness, avoiding unnecessary confrontation with the Centre and targeting deprived socio-economic groups that have voted for the BJP in the last Lok Sabha polls.
‘Prashant Kishor’s drive holds key to next step,’ says ex-JDU leader Pavan Varma
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Deeksha Bhardwaj
UPDATED ON MAR 05, 2020 05:42 AM IST
Former Janata Dal (United) Rajya Sabha member of Parliament (MP), Pavan Varma, is of the opinion that political strategist, Prashant Kishor’s, ‘Baat Bihar ki’ ‘ holds the key’ in a possible third front coming to fruition in the poll-bound state, where election is slated to be held in November.
On Nitish Kumar’s big speech, Prashant Kishor spotlights what the CM did not say
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON MAR 02, 2020 10:45 AM IST
Prashant Kishor was expelled from Janata Dal (United) by Nitish Kumar for questioning the party’s stand on Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA.
Prashant Kishor likely to get TMC ticket to Rajya Sabha: Report
New Delhi | By Indo Asian News Service
UPDATED ON FEB 29, 2020 03:40 PM IST
The four TMC seats in Rajya Sabha, which will fall vacant, are currently held by Manish Gupta, Jogen Chowdhury, Ahmed Hassan Imran, and KD Singh.
‘Poor attempt to gain 2 minutes of fame’: Prashant Kishor on FIR filed for content theft
Hindustan Times, Patna | By Avinash Kumar
UPDATED ON FEB 27, 2020 08:27 PM IST
In the complaint filed by Shashwat Gautam, who worked as an advisor to chief minister Nitish Kumar and later as a strategist with the Congress, Kishor has been accused of plagiarizing the content for the programme.
Youth accuses Prashant Kishor of copying his idea, forgery case filed
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON FEB 27, 2020 08:29 AM IST
Kishor, who was recently sacked from Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), launched the ‘Baat Bihar Ki’ campaign last week to connect with youths in the state.
‘Have no objection if Prashant Kishor ji wants to join us’: AAP
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON FEB 22, 2020 06:50 AM IST
Prashant Kishor was sacked from the Janata Dal United last month after he spoke out against the party’s stand on the citizenship law.
Prashant Kishor meets oppn leaders in Bihar amid talks about his next move
Hindustan Times, Patna | By Anil Kumar
UPDATED ON FEB 21, 2020 11:43 AM IST
Prashant Kishor said to be in talks with different political parties ahead of the Bihar assembly polls.
‘Like musclemen of 1990s Bihar’: BJP’s fresh salvo against Prashant Kishor
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON FEB 19, 2020 06:40 PM IST
In his first interaction with media in Patna since he was expelled from the JD(U) last month, Prashant Kishor on Tuesday questioned Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s style of governance.