His 20 years in power will be remembered for wasted opportunities: Prashant Kishor attacks Nitish Kumar
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his former mentor, with failure to secure tangible benefits for the state despite the BJP's dependence on him to retain power at the Centre. Kishor alleged the JD(U) boss was fretting over his party's share in the Union council of ministers and using his clout with the BJP to settle scores with detractors at the state level, instead of leveraging his position to rehabilitate the state industrially.
«People are talking about special status for Bihar. I ask why Nitish Kumar could not press for the restoration of 20 sugar mills that have been moribund for years? He has been in power for nearly 20 years which shall be remembered for wasted opportunities,» the IPAC founder told reporters here.
He was speaking after a function of the 'Jan Suraaj' campaign he had launched nearly two years ago, which is all set to become a political party on October 2.
A former JD(U) national vice president who was expelled from the party because of «indiscipline», Kishor claimed Kumar was in an enviable position after the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, which saw the BJP running short of majority and becoming dependent on allies, especially the JD(U) and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu's TDP.
Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj to become political party on October 2
«But all that Nitish Kumar cared for was how many berths in the ministry his party was getting. He even used his new-found clout to fix those in the BJP, whose turban was an eyesore,» he said in an indirect reference to
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