New Delhi: Ace political strategist Prashant Kishore has hit back at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the latter’s remark alleging Kishore of having ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Taking a jibe at the Janata Dal (United) leader, Kishore said that “age is showing its effect on Nitish”, reported news agency ANI.
“He wants to say something but he speaks something else.If I was working on BJP agenda why would I speak of strengthening the Congress?” Kishore said, quoted by the news agency.
“He is getting delusional & politically isolated. He’s surrounded by those whom he can’t trust,” he added.
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Kishore’s statement came after Kumar had alleged him of having ties with the BJP.
Dismissing claims of ace political strategist Prashant Kishor that he spurned a recent request by him to ‘lead’ the Janata Dal (United), Kumar said, “It’s false. Let him speak whatever he wants, we’ve nothing to do with it. 4-5 yrs back he had told me to merge with Congress. He has gone to BJP & is acting as per it….”
Kishor, who is on a 3,500-km-long Jan Suraaj ‘pada-yatra’ covering every nook and corner of the state, had made the remarks in a remote part of West Champaran district, reported news agency PTI.
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While addressing a gathering at Jamunia village in the area, Kishor had said, “When I met Nitish Kumar a few days ago, he asked me to re-join JD(U) and work with him. ‘You are my political heir’, the CM told me, asking to withdraw my campaign.”