Prashant Kishor to join Nitish Kumar's list of bygones?

PATNA: Along with RJD and the Congress, also blotted out of Nitish Kumar's book after his restored alliance with the BJP is his political strategist in the last assembly election, Prashant Kishor.

Widely , even if somewhat exaggeratedly , considered instrumental in Nitish's strategy in the 2015 Bihar assembly polls, Kishor had, as a matter of fact, first shot into prominence as the “election strategist“ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.

Sources close to Kishor said on Sunday that he has told Nitish about his inability to continue as the CM's adviser. In political circles in Bihar's capital, Kishor's decision to quit is being attributed to the BJP-JD(U) alliance. Sources in the CM's office said they had information about Kishor's unavailability for his official engagements in Bihar. He has cabinet rank in the state government.

“Ever since the Bihar Vikas Mission was formed in January last year, he attended only one meeting and that too for 10 minutes,“ said a source, adding, “Now, when the JD(U) is in alliance with the BJP, there was no way he could have continued.“

Currently , Kishor is in Andhra Pradesh to help Jagan Mohan Reddy with his political plans.