"No Consultancy, Next 5 Years Will Focus On Bihar": Prashant Kishor To NDTV | Read
Prashant Kishor - whose Jan Suraaj flopped in the Bihar election, winning zero of 238 seats contested - ruled out a return to his poll strategist avatar, telling NDTV's Editor-in-Chief Rahul Kanwal he had no plans to advise actor-politician Vijay in the run-up to next year's Tamil Nadu Assembly poll.
Like Kishor, Vijay will make his electoral debut. The actor, whose Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam is driven by his popularity and is seen as a dark horse, is recovering from negative press over September's Karur stampede, for which his party was blamed.
Kishor did, though, offer a peek into his future plans, and they revolve exclusively around Bihar.
"I will not rest till I win Bihar... let it take five years or even 10. I will not change my fundamentals. I will obviously support operational and tactical changes (i.e., lessons learned from the first election). But I will never let mafia leaders fight for my party," he said.
