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| A TV grab of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar with poll strategist Prashant Kishor |
November 15, 2015, NewsCrunch
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may send poll strategist Prashant Kishor to Rajya Sabha in 2016.
Five Rajya Sabha members from Bihar retire next year and Prashant Kishor has emerged as a hot favourite to replace one of them.
Coomi Kapoor notes in Indian Express that Nitish Kumar may also nominate Prashant Kishor to a body structured on the lines of Sonia Gandhi's National Advisory Council.
Prashant Kishor, who had crafted Narendra Modi's victory in 2014, shifted loyalty to Nitish Kumar after failing to find a suitable position in the new dispensation at the Centre.
Prashant Kishor wanted to start a policy organisation and continue as an adviser to he Prime Minister. But Modi's other confidants led by Amit Shah, reportedly scuttled it, to preempt the emergence of one more power centre.
That is the mistake Nitish Kumar wants to avoid.