Mamata Banerjee Signs On Election Strategist Prashant Kishor

Kishor met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Thursday.

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee signed on election strategist Prashant Kishor after a two-hour meeting in Kolkata.

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After the BJP, Congress, and YSR Congress, election strategist Prashant Kishor will now be working with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.

Banerjee, who is recovering from her party’s less-than-favourable results in the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, met Kishor in Kolkata on Thursday, 6 June.

The meeting lasted two hours and resulted in Banerjee signing Kishor to help the TMC with its post Lok Sabha strategy and campaign strategy for the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, reported NDTV.

Kishor is expected to start his work in a month’s time, reported news agency ANI.

Kishor has been credited with the YSR Congress and its chief Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sweep in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly as well as Lok Sabha elections, almost decimating incumbent Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s Telegu Desam Party.

He has also managed successful campaigns for the BJP in 2014 and for Nitish Kumar in the Bihar state elections of 2015. He, however, did not seem to manage the same kind of magic for the Congress, which signed him on for the Uttar Pradesh elections of 2017.

It was reported that Mamata Banerjee had sent feelers to Kishor after Nitish Kumar’s victory in 2015. However, talks fell through in very early stages.

(With inputs from NDTV, ANI and Firstpost)