In UP, he faced resistance from various quarters, including general secretaries and in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad
Congress's poll strategist Prashant Kishor's calculations went awry in Uttar Pradesh while they worked in Punjab.
Party leaders at the AICC headquarters, however, held him responsible for sewing up alliance with the SP leading to exit of many old Congress leaders. Till Friday, he was assuring leaders that the alliance would not get less than 190 seats, while the BJP would end up with less than 150 seats and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) below 70.
On Saturday evening, as BJP swept UP, its party president Amit Shah made it a point to mention during the press conference that his party was winning six of the ten seats of Amethi and Rae Bareli, the Congress strongholds.
Congress lost all four assembly seats in Amethi district, with BJP bagging three of them.
BJP nominee Garima Singh defeated tainted minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati of Samajwadi Party, though the margin was less than 5000. In Tiloi, BJP candidate Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh defeated BSP nominee Md Saud, son of sitting MLA Dr Muslim. In Jagdishpur (Reserved), BJP candidate Suresh Passi has defeated his nearest rival and sitting Congress MLA Radhey Shyam Dhobi. In Rae Bareli, the BJP won two of the six seats-- Rai Bareilly (Congress), Unchahar (SP), Sareni (BJP), Bacharwan (BJP) and Harchandpur (Congress).
Punjab has been a saving grace for Kishor. He was actually romped in by Captain Amrinder Singh to design his campaign. However, in Punjab the ruling Akali Dal-BJP combine was already fighting anti-incumbency. Kishor's strategy was aimed at ensuring that the Aam Admi Party did not get the advantage of that.
In UP, he faced resistance from various quarters, including general secretaries and in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad. But everyone fell in line, after he convinced Rahul Gandhi about stitching alliance with the ruling SP.
Kishor was earlier working as an health expert for a programme of the United Nations in Africa, before he returned to India and joined the election campaign of Modi. He organised the "chai pe charcha" campaign for Modi in the run-up to 2014.
For the assembly polls, he organised a farmer-centric campaign, revolving around the Gandhis and Shiela Dikshit.
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