Tag: Prashant Kishor

On ‘not so well executed lockdown,’ Prashant Kishor’s ‘nauseating self-praise’ dig at govt

His tweet came a day after BJP leaders took turns to praise PM Narendra Modi for executing measures against Coronavirus pandemic and the economic bailout package announced by the Centre, yesterday.

March 27, 2020

Big ‘strategic blunder’ by Nitish ahead of Bihar assembly polls

The chief minister is drawing ridicule from his opponents for poor turnouts at this important JD-U programme meet organised on his birthday.

March 2, 2020

National Register Of Citizens won’t be implemented in Bihar: CM Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar had asked the Centre to drop new columns in NPR forms like parents' places of birth, saying they were 'not necessary' and might lead to apprehensions.

February 24, 2020

Prashant Kishor sparks speculation ahead of assembly polls, meets Bihar oppn leaders

However, amidst all the latest development, Prashant Kishor has ruled out joining another political party or coalition.

February 21, 2020

Nitish Kumar ‘treated me like son’, won’t question his call: Prashant Kishor on expulsion from JD(U)

Kishor, who was addressing his first press conference after his expulsion from JD(U), further announced a 'Baat Bihar Ki' programme to reach out to thousands of the state's youth voters.

February 18, 2020

Nitish Kumar in serious trouble with huge dependency on BJP vote-bank

The poor performance of his party, the JD-U, on two seats in Delhi which he contested in alliance with the BJP—first such alliance in over a decade outside Bihar—speaks volumes about how Nitish failed to leave his impact on migrant Bihari voters.

February 12, 2020

Prashant Kishor congratulates Arvind Kejriwal, says Delhi protected ‘soul of India’

Taking it to Twitter, Kishor said, "Thank you Delhi for standing up to protect the soul of India."

February 11, 2020

Twist in Bihar politics: ‘Job done’, Prashant Kishor and Pavan Varma shown door

Poll strategist Kishor was working as the national vice-president whereas Varma, a diplomat-turned-politician, had been serving as party’s national general secretary-cum national spokesperson.

January 29, 2020

JD(U) expels Prashant Kishor, Pavan Varma for revolting against Nitish Kumar’s pro-CAA stand

Yesterday, after JD(U) national vice president Prashant Kishor’s tweet challenging Amit Shah on CAA, the Bihar Chief Minister and party chief Nitish Kumar on Tuesday distanced himself from the leader.

January 29, 2020

‘One can stay in party till he wants, he can go if he wants’: Nitish Kumar on Prashant Kishor

'He can go wherever he wants. I wish him well,' Nitish Kumar told reporters on the question about Pavan Varma's letter.

January 28, 2020

‘Should be mild current’: Prashant Kishor’s retort to Amit Shah’s ‘press with anger’ remark

Alleging that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government was backing rioters and those indulging in violence, the Home Minister had on Sunday urged people not to re-elect a government that could disturb the city's peace.

January 27, 2020

JD-U vertically split over CAA, NRC

The development has come as a huge embarrassment to the party ahead of the coming assembly elections even as the party leadership looks helpless.

January 22, 2020

‘Try and implement’: Prashant Kishor dares Amit Shah after firm message on CAA, NRC

Without mincing words, Amit Shah had said that the government will not step back on CAA and dared the protesters to continue with their agitation.

January 22, 2020

Nationwide NRC ‘needless, has no justification’, says Nitish Kumar, rules out implementation in Bihar

Signalling for the first time, his reservations on the controversial law, Kumar emphasized in the state assembly that NRC was in discussions only in the context of Assam and that PM Modi has also clarified on it.

January 13, 2020

Neither CAA nor NRC would be implemented in Bihar: Prashant Kishor

Even as the JD-U strongly supported the Citizenship bill in Parliament, one of its top leaders and party’s national vice-president Prashant Kishor on Sunday formally declared that the new Citizenship law or the CAA as well as the National Register for Citizens (NRC) won’t be implemented in Bihar.

January 12, 2020

Bihar NDA partners locked in further confrontation, this time over NPR

While the deputy chief minister and senior-most BJP leader from Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi declared that the updation process of the contentious NPR would begin from May, the JD-U has rejected such announcement saying no such decision has been taken by the state government so far.

January 5, 2020

Prashant Kishor once again hits Bihar BJP with frontal attack on Dy CM

Kishor expressed bemusement on Twitter at the 'vyakhyan' (discourse) from Sushil Modi on coalition dharma, and made a close-to-the-bone remark about 'circumstances' that helped the veteran BJP leader return as deputy in 2017, despite his party having lost the assembly polls two years before.

January 1, 2020