Prashant Kishor keeps mum about getting on board with Trinamool Congress

Highlight : As Trinamool Congress prepared itself to get JD(U) vice-president Prashant Kishor on board for the 2021 Assembly polls in West Bengal, the focus remained on Kishor who didn't declare his stand.

New Delhi: All eyes were on Nitish Kumar-led party meeting on Sunday where Kishor was supposed to explain his stand on the matter.him getting signed by Trinamool Congress. Kishor, seated next to the party leader Nitish, did not speak during the meeting. The party stuck to its earlier stance and said the decision to help Mamata Banerjee was not in Kishor's capacity as a JD(U) leader.

Party leaders wondered why the conversation didn't start earlier when Kishor helped YSR Congress Party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy ahead of the elections in Andhra Pradesh

"Kishor joined our party in September last year and we assigned him an important role. But he also heads an organisation that specialises in devising poll strategies for political parties. In that capacity, he has been in touch with various political parties. The JD(U) has nothing to do with it, We have nothing to do with his activities in West Bengal. We do not even know what type of services his company will be providing in the neighbouring state. But we understand this episode has given rise to many misgivings in the media unlike in the past when he similarly offered professional help to the YSR Congress headed by Jaganmohan Reddy, which swept to power in Andhra Pradesh," Nitish Kumar stated.