"You Don't Know How Stubborn I Am": PK's Imran Khan Example After Poll Rout | Read

Days after the Jan Suraaj Party faced a drubbing in the Bihar election, its leader, Prashant Kishor, said there was "no question of stepping back without winning Bihar". He invoked Mahatma Gandhi and cited examples of Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, a struggling BJP in the 1980s, and a politically weaker Nitish Kumar in the 1990s.

Kishor spoke to NDTV's Editor-in-Chief Rahul Kanwal during the Walk The Talk show; this was his first interview after Jan Suraaj scored a duck in its maiden poll test. 

"There is no question of stepping back without winning Bihar. You don't know how stubborn I am," he said. Kishor pointed to the example of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who contested on multiple seats in his maiden election and lost all of them. "But eventually, a day came when he won. (Mahatma) Gandhi teaches us two 'P's: patience and perseverance; you have to stick to what you believe is right. I believe what I am doing is right for Bihar," he said.