Prashant Kishor

Poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor on Sunday renewed his 'mentally unfit' attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, claiming that his coalition partner BJP has imposed him on the 13 crore people of the state.

Actor-politician and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay celebrated his party’s first anniversary with a massive public gathering in Mahabalipuram. He shared the stage with election strategist Prashant Kishor. The event hinted at a strategic shift as TVK positions itself as a challenger to Tamil Nadu’s dominant Dravidian parties.

Amid speculations that the BJP's big win in the recent Delhi elections is going to have some impact on the Bihar elections later this year, Jan Suraaj Party chief Prashant Kishor downplayed such claims, saying that the saffron party is not a big player in the state.

Prashant Kishor was detained during a protest in Patna.

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor, on a fast unto death demanding the cancellation of a Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) exam, was detained by Patna Police early Monday.

Prashant Kishor began an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday, demanding the cancellation of the Bihar Civil Services examination.

The BPSC Preliminary Exam has sparked protests across Patna, with allegations of irregularities, delayed question papers, and concerns over normalisation.

Bihar Police has filed a case against Prashant Kishor and others for allegedly instigating the students' protest being held by BPSC aspirants in Patna's Gandhi Maidan.

Bihar civil service candidates protested Prashant Kishor's arrival, demanding he leave Gandhi Maidan.

At the launch of the Jan Suraaj Party, Prashant Kishor announced his plan to lift Bihar's liquor ban and redirect the tax revenue towards overhauling the state's education system.

With Bihar Assembly elections to be held next year, Prashant Kishor on Sunday announced that his party, Jan Suraaj party, will contest all 243 seats in the state.

Election strategist Prashant Kishor on Sunday urged the youngsters in Bihar to join politics, adding that the people of the state do not want to work under the leadership of "10th fail" people. Addressing a gathering in Patna, Kishor said, "... Any capable youngster from Bihar, who wants to enter politics, will be fielded by Jan Suraaj in the elections. Do not worry about money or how to contest elections, Prashant Kishor is here to take care of everything. It is necessary to decide the minimum qualification for entering politics through Jan Suraaj. The youth of Bihar do not want to work under the leadership of those who have failed the 10th standard...". The political temperature in Bihar is expected to increase in the coming days as the state witness Assembly polls in 2025.

In an exclusive interview with India Today, political strategist Prashant Kishor talked about the 2024 Lok Sabha results, getting the election numbers wrong, implications of Lok Sabha results on upcoming assembly polls and on a slew of issues. 

In an exclusive interview with India Today, political strategist Prashant Kishor shared his key takeaways that changed the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

In an exclusive interview with India Today, poll strategist Prashant Kishor accepted that his predictions for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections went wrong and said that he was ready to eat the humble pie for getting the exit poll numbers wrong.

Campaigning for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, set to take place on Saturday, has ended in Delhi and Haryana.

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor said that Jan Suraaj will win the Assembly elections in Bihar in 2025.

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor said that if the NDA wins the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin his third term "with a bang".

While appearing on India Today television, political strategist Prashant Kishor made commentary on the upcoming result of the 2024 elections. Kishor spoke firmly against all prevalent theories about the election's likely outcome, and predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) score will not drop below 270. He also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's power will not be as dominant as it was in his previous term, regardless of the electoral outcome. Kishor also prognosticated that Modi's government might make an intense effort to restrain the financial autonomy of the states.

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should take a break if he loses the Lok Sabha elections.

In an exclusive interview with India Today TV News Director Rahul Kanwal, poll strategist Prashant Kishor predicted that the BJP is likely to get around 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. He said that there was no widespread anger against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Political analyst Prashant Kishor said that the biggest weakness of the BJP was the party's "over-dependence" on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Political strategist Prashant Kishor has suggested that Rahul Gandhi should consider stepping back if the Congress does not get the desired results in the Lok Sabha polls. In an interaction with news agency PTI, he said Gandhi, for all practical purposes, is running his party and has been unable to either step aside or let somebody else steer the Congress despite his inability to deliver in the last 10 years.

How corrupt is Bihar? When did illegal trade of alcohol and sand become the state’s highest employment generators? “If Lalu’s years at the helm was Jungle Raj of criminals, then Nitish’s term amounts to Jungle Raj of bureaucrats.” Prashant Kishor made some startling observations in his latest press conference in Khagaria, Bihar.

Speaking to India Today, Prashant Kishor expresses his view that with elections looming, this is worst time for Rahul Gandhi to embark on a yatra.

In this episode of First Up, we will look into the fresh attacks by the Bharatiya Janat Party on the Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren after the Enforcement Directorate increased its heat on the JMM leader in the money laundering case. Remember, the federal probe agency on Tuesday camped at Soren’s Delhi residence to question him in connection with a money laundering investigation and camped there for over 13 hours during which they searched the premises. In another news, poll strategist Prashant Kishor spoke exclusively to India Today TV’s Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai after the big political shift in Bihar. Political strategist Prashant Kishor said that the “BJP by taking back Nitish Kumar has gone for a strategy of losing a battle to win a war.”

In an exclusive interview with India Today's Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai, political strategist Prashant Kishor talked about Nitish Kumar's 'ghar wapasi' to the NDA, INDIA alliance, Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Watch as political strategist Prashant Kishor shares his views on these and more on this episode of News Today with Rajdeep Sardesai.

In an exclusive interview with Aaj Tak's Chitra Tripathi, political strategist Prashant Kishor spoke about Nitish Kumar's 'palti', INDIA alliance's future and on the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. 

Political strategist Prashant Kishor on Sunday made a big claim, saying that the Janata Dal (United)-BJP alliance formed in Bihar will not last long.

Days after the phenomenal win of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in three Assembly elections, key thinker and election strategist Prashant Kishor spoke exclusively to India Today's senior journalist Rahul Kanwal. On being asked about the implications of the results of the recently concluded Assembly polls on the upcoming high-octane Lok Sabha polls in 2024, Kishore said that the BJP has a "psychological advantage" after the win in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. "To draw a conclusive argument that because the BJP has three states, they are going to Lok Sabha is not true. They were ahead even any which way before this state election...," he said in his exclusive chat with Rahul Kanwal. The next Lok Sabha election is expected to be held between April and May 2024. Click here to watch the full interview here.

Amid the row over migrants in Tamil Nadu, the Erode Police have booked Naam Tamilar Katchi chief Senthamizan Seeman after a video of him, where he said that he would beat Hindi speakers, was flagged by poll strategist Prashant Kishor. According to police, Senthamizan Seeman was addressing a public meeting in Thirunagar colony, Karungalpalayam in Erode on February 13, where he said that he would beat up Hindi speakers and have them pack their bags and flee Tamil Nadu within a week.