West Bengal Chief Minister has hired political and electoral strategist Prashant Kishore after a two-hour long meeting on Thursday. The TMC chief will be guided by Kishore for Assembly Elections in West Bengal.
Kishore worked with Jagan Mohan Reddy in recent Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections, and Reddy's party YSR Congress won by a great margin in the polls. According to report, Kishore will start working with Banerjee from next month onwards.
The West Bengal CM had a meeting with Kishore on Thursday, and the latter was accompanied by former's nephew Abhishek Banerjee. Mamata Banerjee's meeting with Kishor took place at a time when the TMC supremo is facing a tough challenge from the BJP on her home turf.
The saffron party won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in Bengal in the recently-concluded general election, only four less than the TMC's 22. Buoyed by the stupendous performance, BJP leaders are now claiming that their next target is to overthrow the TMC from power in the 2021 Bengal polls.
Kishor, who shot into the limelight after the BJP's spectacular victory in the 2014 general election, subsequently worked with several leaders of different political parties. He joined Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) last year as its vice-president. But he continues to work as a poll strategist.
With PTI inputs
