Nitish Kumar talk on Prashant Kishor kicks up political row

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s remark that he inducted poll strategist Prashant Kishor in Janata Dal (U) and elevated him as his Number 2 in the party on BJP president Amit Shah’s suggestion kicked up a political storm in Bihar with the Opposition targeting the JD-U as “BJP’s advanced version.”

Speaking at a private event in Patna, Kumar said he had received two phone calls from Shah asking him to induct Kishor into JD-U. “He had with worked us during the 2015 assembly polls and Shah asked me twice to take him into JD-U,” Kumar said when asked if Kishor was his political successor. He, however, ruled out the possibility saying it was not a monarchy to talk in terms of successors.