Prashant Kishor, Prakash Raj meet KCR
2 years, 10 months ago

Prashant Kishor, Prakash Raj meet KCR

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Election strategist Prashant Kishor and noted film actor Prakash Raj met TRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday. Kishor, who is credited with plotting the victory of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is reported to have discussed several issues including Chandrashekar Rao’s entry into national politics, the remarks made by Rao against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government, with the Chief Minister. Later, Kishor and Prakash Raj visited Mallannasagar on Saturday, reportedly on the advise of the Chief Minister. The photographs of Kishor and Prakash Raj at Mallannasagar went viral on social media Reportedly, Prakash Raj also had a look at the welfare schemes and developmental activities taken up in the Gajwel Assembly constituency, represented by Chandrasekhar Rao.

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Prashant Kishor working for BJP, no offer made to him: JD(U) president
2 years, 3 months ago

Prashant Kishor working for BJP, no offer made to him: JD(U) president

Firstpost  

In 2018, Kumar, who was then the JD national president, inducted Kishor into the party and elevated him to the post of national vice president within weeks. However, Kishor’s outspokenness against CAA-NPR-NRC led to his expulsion from the party in 2020, which was then an NDA ally Patna: JD president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan on Saturday alleged that political …

No offer made to Prashant Kishor; he is working for BJP: JD(U) president
2 years, 3 months ago

No offer made to Prashant Kishor; he is working for BJP: JD(U) president

The Hindu  

JD president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan on September 17 alleged that political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor was "working for" the BJP, as part of its "conspiracies" to find a firm foothold in Bihar. Rubbishing Mr. Kishor's claim of having turned down an "offer" from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the party's de facto leader, Mr. Singh asserted that the poll campaign …

Prashant Kishor's cryptic tweet amid buzz of reunion with Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
2 years, 3 months ago

Prashant Kishor's cryptic tweet amid buzz of reunion with Bihar CM Nitish Kumar

Hindustan Times  

Election strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on Thursday posted a cryptic tweet amid speculations of his possible reunion with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar after the two met in Patna late Tuesday night. While Nitish Kumar insisted that the meeting was "normal and not of any political significance", Prashant Kishor posted two lines from the Hindi epic Rashmirathi written by Ramdhari Singh …

KCR meets Akhilesh, ponders ways to check BJP
2 years, 5 months ago

KCR meets Akhilesh, ponders ways to check BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Friday met former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in New Delhi, where the two, along with SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, discussed the current state of national politics. Chandrashekar Rao has been in the national capital for the past five days where he has been, according to …

KCR announces three RS candidates
2 years, 7 months ago

KCR announces three RS candidates

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samiti president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday declared party's candidates for three Rajya Sabha seats in Telangana going for polls in May and June. Hetero Group chairman and managing director Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy, granite businessman-turned-politician Vaddiraju Ravichandra, popularly known as Gayatri Ravi and Telangana Publications Pvt Ltd chairman and managing director D. Damodar Rao, …

Chirag Paswan welcomes Prashant Kishor’s entry to Bihar; JD(U) says there is no political space for him
2 years, 8 months ago

Chirag Paswan welcomes Prashant Kishor’s entry to Bihar; JD(U) says there is no political space for him

The Hindu  

Political parties in Bihar have reacted with caution on political strategist Prashant Kishor’s announcement of beginning his political journey from Bihar. Prashant Kishor meets activists Meanwhile, Mr. Kishor has started building the ground to construct his political outfit. On Monday, he met noted Right To Information activist Shiv Prakash Rai and social activist Guddu Baba at Patna’s Sheikhpura House to …

Prashant Kishor announces plans for political outfit, says ‘beginning from Bihar’
2 years, 8 months ago

Prashant Kishor announces plans for political outfit, says ‘beginning from Bihar’

The Hindu  

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor had said on May 2 last year, the day results of the West Bengal Assembly polls were announced, that he would be leaving the strategy space and exploring politics for himself. Exactly a year later, he announced on Twitter that he was “turning a new page” from what he had been doing before, hinting at the …

What Prashant Kishor wanted from the Congress: 4 points
2 years, 8 months ago

What Prashant Kishor wanted from the Congress: 4 points

Hindustan Times  

After days of speculation and back-to-back meetings with the Congress top leadership, the deal which Prashant Kishor and the Grand Old Party were inches away to seal fell through. Prashant Kishor wanted something while the Congress was believed to be sticking to its point, and the middle ground that both the sides tried to come to was not feasible finally. …

Prashant Kishor wants veterans axed; Congress responds with a committee full of them
2 years, 8 months ago

Prashant Kishor wants veterans axed; Congress responds with a committee full of them

India Today  

When poll strategist Prashant Kishor submitted a detailed report to the Congress on how the party can aim at organisational revival and better results in elections, one of the top points in his prescription was that all leaders above the age of 70 step aside. Former Union finance and home minister P. Chidambaram said senior leaders should step back and …

Amid buzz of joining Congress, Prashant Kishor meets top party leaders including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi
2 years, 8 months ago

Amid buzz of joining Congress, Prashant Kishor meets top party leaders including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi

Firstpost  

Sources said the Congress leaders are discussing the party’s strategy for upcoming assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh and holding the party’s ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Rajasthan. Election strategist Prashant Kishor met with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior leader Rahul Gandhi, once again sparking speculation of him joining the party, as per multiple reports. Kishor had previously held parleys …

Prashant Kishor meets Sonia Gandhi, other leaders as Congress discusses his joining
2 years, 8 months ago

Prashant Kishor meets Sonia Gandhi, other leaders as Congress discusses his joining

Hindustan Times  

A high-level Congress meeting is going on at the residence of party president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday to discuss the induction of election strategist Prashant Kishor to the party - among many other crucial issues, including the recent election rout the party faced. Apart from Prashant Kishor, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Digvijiya Singh, Mallikarjun …

Prashant Kishor meets Priyanka and Rahul, political circles abuzz
2 years, 9 months ago

Prashant Kishor meets Priyanka and Rahul, political circles abuzz

Hindustan Times  

Is Prashant Kishor back in talks with the Congress and likely to work on the party’s Gujarat campaign? Electoral strategist Prashant Kishor After last year’s will-he-won’t-he drama of Kishor joining the party in a senior role, the election strategist is playing his cards close to his chest and said all buzz around this is “speculative and completely untrue.” Yet, two …

Prashant Kishor meets KCR amid rumours of a tie-up
2 years, 10 months ago

Prashant Kishor meets KCR amid rumours of a tie-up

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Political strategist Prashant Kishor's meeting with Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao here has assumed political significance ahead of next year's Assembly elections in the state, even as the TRS supremo is making efforts to stitch up an anti-BJP bloc comprising various regional leaders including Mamata Banerjee and Uddhav Thackeray. Kishor, who is credited with successfully handling the campaigns of …

Election strategist Prashant Kishor in Telangana, meets Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao
2 years, 10 months ago

Election strategist Prashant Kishor in Telangana, meets Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao

The Hindu  

With the bonhomie and kid gloves now off between Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, the former has unleashed and finally made public his latest political weapon. Prashant Kishor, the noted political and election strategist, was in Telangana on February 26 and 27, closeted with Chandrashekar Rao at the latter’s farm house …

Prashant Kishor Begins Ground Work for Telangana's TRS as Assembly Election Nears
2 years, 10 months ago

Prashant Kishor Begins Ground Work for Telangana's TRS as Assembly Election Nears

News 18  

Political consultant and strategist Prashant Kishor appears to have started the ground work to prepare a strategy for Telangana’s ruling party TRS for the next year’s Assembly election. PK, as Kishor is popularly called, also reportedly called on Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at the latter’s farm house in Siddipet district. As part of his efforts to cobble together a …

Ahead of next year's assembly polls in Telangana, KCR meets Prashant Kishor; fuels rumors of alliance
2 years, 10 months ago

Ahead of next year's assembly polls in Telangana, KCR meets Prashant Kishor; fuels rumors of alliance

India TV News  

Highlights Political strategist Prashant Kishor's meeting with Telangana CM KCR fueled rumors of alliance. Political strategist Prashant Kishor's meeting with Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao here has assumed political significance ahead of next year's Assembly elections in the state, even as the TRS supremo is making efforts to stitch up an anti-BJP bloc comprising various regional leaders including Mamata Banerjee …

Rishta purana hai: Nitish Kumar after meeting Prashant Kishor
2 years, 10 months ago

Rishta purana hai: Nitish Kumar after meeting Prashant Kishor

India Today  

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who on Friday met his former Janata Dal United colleague and political strategist Prashant Kishor, said that there was no meaning to the meeting and his relations with Kishor are old. Speaking to mediapersons on Saturday, Nitish Kumar said, "My relationship with Prashant Kishor is old and not from today. In 2018, Prashant Kishor joined …

Role of Prashant Kishor in the rebranding of Mamata Banerjee
3 years, 5 months ago

Role of Prashant Kishor in the rebranding of Mamata Banerjee

India Today  

2019 was the last time West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had visited Delhi. Two years later when Mamata Banerjee came to Delhi, she stayed in the national capital for four days and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal and DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi. While Mamata was actively moving around in Delhi, …

Prashant Kishor to join Congress? Rahul Gandhi brainstorming with senior leaders, say sources
3 years, 5 months ago

Prashant Kishor to join Congress? Rahul Gandhi brainstorming with senior leaders, say sources

India TV News  

Congress president Rahul Gandhi is consulting many senior party leaders about the proposal of electoral strategist Prashant Kishor joining the party. Sources said that most of the leaders present at the meeting agreed that Prashant Kishor's joining the Congress would be beneficial for the party. "Rahul Gandhi sought the views of senior leaders on Prashant Kishor's proposal to join the …

Will Prashant Kishor join Congress? Buzz grows in party circles
3 years, 5 months ago

Will Prashant Kishor join Congress? Buzz grows in party circles

India Today  

A string of senior Congress leaders held a meeting chaired by Rahul Gandhi a week ago to discuss whether poll strategist Prashant Kishor could fit into the party's scheme of things. Sources told India Today that Rahul Gandhi shared with the senior Congress leaders about his meeting with Prashant Kishor recently. A senior leader who was present in the meeting …

Just a courtesy meeting: Prashant Kishor on visit to Rahul Gandhi's residence
3 years, 5 months ago

Just a courtesy meeting: Prashant Kishor on visit to Rahul Gandhi's residence

India Today  

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday said that his visit to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's residence was just a "courtesy meeting" and nothing more should be read into it. Speaking to India Today TV, Prashant Kishor said, "My meeting with Rahul Gandhi was just a courtesy meeting." READ: Punjab Congress crisis: Sidhu camp presses for change of guard as …

Is Prashant Kishor lobbying for Sharad Pawar as next President to corner BJP?
3 years, 5 months ago

Is Prashant Kishor lobbying for Sharad Pawar as next President to corner BJP?

India Today  

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor recently met Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Sources say that in Prashant Kishor’s calculation, the electoral college for the presidential election would become favourable for an Opposition candidate if Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal leader Naveen Patnaik joins hands with the non-NDA parties. Sources also said that Prashant Kishor recently met …

Rahul Gandhi meets Prashant Kishor ahead of likely rejig in Punjab
3 years, 5 months ago

Rahul Gandhi meets Prashant Kishor ahead of likely rejig in Punjab

Business Standard  

Ahead of a likely organisational and government reshuffle in Punjab, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met poll strategist Prashant Kishor at his residence. Other party leaders like Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, AICC general secretary Punjab-in-charge Harish Rawat and KC Venugopal were also present during the meeting where they are learnt to have discussed the party's overhaul in Punjab and efforts …

Prashant Kishor meets Rahul Gandhi in Delhi amid Punjab Congress infighting
3 years, 5 months ago

Prashant Kishor meets Rahul Gandhi in Delhi amid Punjab Congress infighting

India TV News  

With Punjab Assembly elections round the corner, poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at his residence in Delhi. Rahul Gandhi had last joined hands with Prashant Kishor in the Congress's failed campaign for the Uttar Pradesh election in 2017. Prashant Kishor had also handled the Congress poll campaign in the 2017 Punjab Assembly election when …

Prashant Kishor meets Congress leaders Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi; major decision over Punjab likely
3 years, 5 months ago

Prashant Kishor meets Congress leaders Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi; major decision over Punjab likely

India Today  

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor met former Congress president Rahul Gandhi at the latter's official residence in New Delhi on Tuesday. This meeting between senior Congress leaders and Prashant Kishor comes at a time when the party is working out a strategy to accommodate both CM Amarinder Singh and MP Navjot Singh Sidhu. A week later, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh held …

Not just Punjab, Prashant Kishor also discussed 2024 polls in meeting with Gandhis: Sources
3 years, 5 months ago

Not just Punjab, Prashant Kishor also discussed 2024 polls in meeting with Gandhis: Sources

India Today  

Political strategist Prashant Kishor could be acting as an emissary of various Opposition parties with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress sources told India Today. READ: Prashant Kishor meets Congress leaders Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi; major decision over Punjab likely It is said that the meeting on Tuesday was primarily to discuss a resolution to the tussle between …

Prashant Kishor does it again, this time for Jagan Mohan in Andhra Pradesh
5 years, 7 months ago

Prashant Kishor does it again, this time for Jagan Mohan in Andhra Pradesh

India Today  

Prashant Kishor is the man with the Midas touch in Indian elections turning almost every political entity that he has touched into gold. Enters Prashant Kishor Jagan Mohan's YSR Congress had lost the 2014 assembly election primarily due to lack of organisational strength. Prashant Kishor first hit headlines after helping Narendra Modi win 2012 Gujarat assembly election and become chief …

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