After destroying Mamata Banerjee, Prashant Kishor begins ‘Destroy Amarinder’ marketing campaign

One of probably the most overrated names within the Indian polity is political advisor Prashant Kishor and his I-PAC. The solely feather within the cap of Kishor is profitable already gained elections and wherever there was a problem, he and his group at I-PAC have failed gloriously. After efficiently destroying West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress, Kishor has now joined because the Principal Advisor to Punjab CM Amarinder Singh with a watch on the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections slated to be held early subsequent 12 months.Yesterday, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh took to Twitter to announce the choice to make Prashant Kishor his Principal Advisor. It is pertinent to notice that Kishor has been appointed within the rank and standing of a cabinet minister. While it was anticipated that Amarinder Singh would sail by means of within the subsequent 12 months’s Punjab Assembly elections, the choice to nominate Kishor can rapidly change issues because the ballot strategist has a historical past of triggering intra-party disputes which might derail the Captain’s marketing campaign.Happy to share that @PrashantKishor has joined me as my Principal Advisor. Look ahead to working collectively for the betterment of the folks of Punjab!— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) March 1, 2021#PunjabCabinet clears the appointment of Shri @PrashantKishor as Principal Advisor to the Chief Minister @capt_amarinder Singh within the rank and standing of a Cabinet Minister. pic.twitter.com/h7bTK9qKdD— CMO Punjab (@CMOPb) March 1, 2021As the political legacy of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee hurtles in direction of an inglorious finish, Prashant Kishor has had a serious position to play in guaranteeing a convincing defeat of the TMC. The high-handedness of Kishor and his group has sparked a mass exodus from the TMC with all of the occasion stalwarts – Dinesh Trivedi, Suvendhu Adhikari and Rajib Banerjee all instantly or not directly hitting out at Kishor submit their exit from the TMC.Trivedi, the founding member of TMC, attacked Kishor left, proper and centre submit his exit as he claimed that Kishor’s group took over his social media and put out abusive posts.The former Union Railway Minister mentioned, “I don’t know who tweets, but the fact is, they do take our account password details. In good faith I shared but many times I’d see abusive tweets. I had to put my foot down and asked them to delete or I would. The governor also realized that Dinesh can’t use such abusive language. One day they tweeted in Hindi, abusing the PM and used a bad word. I said that firstly, I don’t tweet in Hindi and this isn’t my language. My image would be tarnished. They want some kind of conflict with the Centre all the time, but I don’t believe in that.”Kishor has a penchant for biting off the hand that feeds him and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar can attest to this truth. Kumar actively aided Kishor’s rise within the Indian polity and even made him the Vice President of Janata Dal (United). However, Kishor was later thrown out of the occasion after his incessant private assaults towards the Bihar Chief Minister.As the TMC heads for a wonderful cut up due to Kishor and his I-PAC, issues in Punjab are all set to get attention-grabbing as murmurs of dissent inside the INC is already palpable. ThePrint reported state Congress chief Sunil Jakhar as claiming that he has had no prior information about Kishor’s appointment. “I am not in the loop on this,” mentioned Jakhar.Reportedly, final 12 months, Jakhar and the then Congress in-charge Asha Kumari and a bit of cabinet ministers and different leaders had been additionally towards Kishor being parachuted into the hustle and bustle of Punjab politics. The choice to award cabinet rank to Kishor is prone to create a discord inside the INC as occasion leaders who’ve labored tirelessly on the bottom would possibly really feel arduous finished by with Kishor’s appointment.Kishor’s deft strategical expertise had been abundantly displayed through the 2017 UP elections as his rigorously constructed alliance of SP-INC got here out to be an enormous cropper because the BJP crossed the 300 mark within the UP Assembly. The Rahul Gandhi of political strategists has additionally vowed to stop the house if the BJP managed to cross double digits in West Bengal and it stays to be seen whether or not Kishor can be true to his phrase as soon as the BJP’s victory turns into official.