JD(S), that ruled the state with the Congress for 14 months before BJP’s Yediyurappa overthrew it, is looking at hi-tech poll strategist Prashant Kishor.
Bengaluru: Former Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy believes that champion election strategist Prashant Kishor will save his party, the Janata Dal (Secular), in the next Assembly elections due in early 2023.
Kumaraswamy, popularly known as HDK, has already held two rounds of talks with Kishor, requesting him to handle the JD(S)’s poll strategy.
The JD(S), which ruled the state in alliance with the Congress for 14 months before BJP’s BS Yediyurappa toppled it last July, is new to the hi-tech election strategies Kishor is known for.
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After a lot of internal pressure on Kumaraswamy and his father, former PM HD Deve Gowda, to modernise the party or perish, they seem to have agreed to hire Kishor to boost its prospects.
As of now, there is no timeline and the HDK camp claims that Kishor will soon land in Bengaluru to assess the situation.
The party may also get a facelift before Kishor actually hits the ground.
Kishor has earlier been associated with PM Narendra Modi, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, the Congress, Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy, the Shiv Sena and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal.
He is currently associated with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and is likely to work for the DMK in Tamil Nadu.
The JD(S), which bagged only 37 of 225 seats in the 2018 assembly polls and came to power in alliance with the Congress with Kumaraswamy as Chief Minister, managed to win only one seat out of 28 in the state during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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