Prashant Kishor, who is an expert in making and implementing election strategies for political parties and leaders, has said that he will not be the chief ministerial candidate of the party that is going to be formed from the Jan Suraj campaign. The Jan Suraj party will be announced on October 2, on Gandhi Jayanti. Prashant Kishor, popularly known as PK as an election strategist, considers himself not the leader of Jan Suraj but the mastermind. He said that on October 2, the party people will elect a leader and then it will be told how the new party will move forward. Rejecting the intention of running the party from behind the scenes, he said that Prashant Kishor’s role in the party will also be decided.
Prashant Kishor said that after the formation of the party on October 2, he will again be seen doing padyatra in villages from October 3. He said that till the assembly elections, he will keep explaining to the people that they should vote for the education and employment of their children. In an interview with Live Cities, Prashant Kishor clearly said on the possibility of himself being the CM candidate – “Absolutely not. Let the party be formed. I take one step at a time.”
He further said that Prashant Kishor will not take any role that will make people say that he will run the party from behind. His role is also fixed. From October 3, he will walk in the villages. He will give speeches that this time vote for your children’s education and employment. He will not say that vote for Jan Suraj. He said that on October 2, one crore people of Bihar are coming together to form a party. Their name and number will also be released. There will be no fraud in this. There will be 4.50 lakh officials in the party organization from Panchayat to the state. On October 2, the party people will sit together and hold elections. They will elect the leader. Leadership council will be formed. Constitution will be made. For the first time in the country, elections will be held from an open platform, the constitution will be discussed and it will be accepted.
On the question of being the face of Jan Suraj in the elections, Prashant Kishor says- “I had said that it may take 2 years, it may take 3 years, but I will first help the people of Bihar in creating a strong alternative, and I am doing that. The party is going to be formed on 2 October. I had said that I will not be its leader. On the 2nd, when lakhs of people will choose their leadership, then you will see the faces of those who are leading it. Prashant Kishor will do the same thing even after 2 October, which he has been doing for the last two years. I will be on padyatra. I will keep going from village to village. Till the time the voting takes place, I will keep explaining to them that this time they have to vote for their child.”
Prashant Kishore said that he will help in Jan Suraj. Referring to Nitish Kumar and Janata Dal United (JDU), he said that he is doing the same work that he used to do earlier. He said that in 2015, he helped JDU in getting organized, in fighting elections in a better way, in giving slogans, in making seven resolves, in making Nitish the face. PK said that if the party is formed, he will play a role in making the party and its leadership win the elections. Whatever else he is doing, he will continue to do in future as well.
On the demand of supporters to become the leader, PK said that such talks had started but when he explained to the people, they understood that Prashant Kishore is not a leader but a sutradhar. Prashant Kishore is a potter, our people are the clay and Jan Suraj is the wheel. PK is collecting that clay.
