NEW DELHI: Election strategist and Jan Suraaj Party chief Prashant Kishor on Wednesday made a major prediction about the upcoming state assembly election and whether Nitish Kumar will become the chief minister again. Dismissing any chance of Nitish Kumar’s fifth consecutive term in office, Prashant Kishor said he won’t become the chief minister no matter which alliance he becomes a part of. Kishor predicted that Nitish would contest the election with the NDA but then he may switch sides.
‘Anybody except Nitish Kumar’
Prashant Kishor who was expelled from JD(U) in 2020 made his chief minister prediction and said anybody except Nitish Kumar could be the chief minister after the November elections. “You can take it from me in writing. If I am proven wrong, then I will give up my own political campaign,” Kishor said addressing a press conference in the West Champaran district.
“I challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to declare that Nitish Kumar will be the chief minister for a full five-year term after the elections (if the NDA comes to power). If they do so, the BJP will find it hard to win seats,” Kishor said.
“Nitish Kumar may try switching sides after it becomes clear to him that the BJP was not going to back him for another term in office. But the number of seats won by JD(U) would be so dismal that he would not get the top job, no matter which formation he joins,” Kishor predicted as he has high hopes for his party this election.
Recently, Prashant Kishor called Nitish Kumar “physically tired and mentally tired” as he predicted an abysmal result for the JD(U) in the election. “Not me, but the late BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi had stated that Nitish Kumar suffers from a serious mental illness. I have been challenging him for long to spell out the names of ministers in his own cabinet, without looking at a piece of paper. He cannot tell the name of the district he is touring unless prompted by officials. It is unfortunate that with such a state of mind, he is ruling Bihar,” Prashant Kishor earlier said.
