Strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor on Tuesday broke his silence on his party Jan Suraj’s dust-biting loss in the recent Bihar elections. However, he very curtly remarked he will not quit politics or resign from any post as he holds none.
Accepting the mandate, Kishor said, …”We made an honest effort, but it was completely unsuccessful. There’s no harm in admitting this. Forget about systemic change; we couldn’t even bring about a change in power. But we certainly played some role in changing Bihar’s politics…There must have been some mistake in our efforts, in our thinking, in the way we explained that the public had not elected us. If the public did not show faith in us, then the responsibility for that is completely mine. I take that responsibility 100% on myself, that I could not win the faith of the people of Bihar…”
Kishor’s party, which contested 238 of Bihar’s 243 Assembly seats, couldn’t even register one single victory. The ruling NDA alliance – led by the BJP and Nitish Kumar’s JDU won with 202 seats (BJP 89 and JDU 85), with Chirag Paswan’s LJP (Ram Vilas) emerging as the other key contributor with 19 seats.
When asked about his resignation, “What position am I holding that I should resign? I had said that if (JDU) gets more than 25 seats, I will retire. From which position should I resign? I did not say that I will leave Bihar. I have left politics. I do not do politics, but I did not say that I will stop speaking for the people of Bihar…”
