Election strategist and leader Prashant Kishore (PK) will launch his party ‘Jan Suraj’ today. PK has announced that the Jan Suraj Padyatra event will continue even after the party launch. Bihar will hold assembly elections next year. PK said Jan Suraj will contest the 2025 elections to 243 assembly seats in Bihar. The party will field female candidates in at least 40 parliamentary seats. Talking about the family of Prashant Kishore who hails from Rohtas district of Bihar, his father is a doctor. My wife is also a doctor. He has a son.
In 2014, when Narendra Modi first became Prime Minister, non-political names were discussed the most. This is the name of Prashant Kishore, who engineered Prime Minister Modi’s campaign. Thereafter, interest in Prashant Kishore increased from political parties besides the general public. Everyone wants to know him. Now, little is known about Prashant’s family life, and he left his mark by formulating successful strategies for many political parties over the years.
Prashant Kishore, a resident of Konar village in Bihar’s Rohtas district, said in an interview that his late father Shrikant Pandey was a famous doctor. In this case, wherever he was sent, his first education was in the local public schools.
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After some time, he went to Patna Science College. Later Hindu came to college, his health deteriorated and he left midway. Finally graduated from Lucknow. Then via Hyderabad to the US, India, South Africa and then India. Prashant said he dropped out of school every two years. Leave three years after 12th grade and two years after graduation. Somehow, he got a job at the United Nations.
Prashant Kishore’s wife Jhanvi Das is a resident of Assam and a doctor by profession. Prashant and Janhvi met while working together on a United Nations health project. The meeting turned into friendship, then into love. Got married some time later. He also has a son. Currently, Janvi has left the medical field and lives with Prashant and his son in Bihar. Prashant said in an interview that his mother passed away in 2018. The rest of the siblings live in Delhi. Now there is no one left at home in Bihar.
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Let us tell you that after the formation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2014, Kishore, along with colleagues from the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), took over the campaign and strategy responsibilities of then Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, 2015. He conveyed the Prime Minister’s seven promises to the public under the slogan “Nitish’s Determination: Guarantee of Development”. After winning the Bihar elections, Nitish appointed Kishore as his advisor.
In 2016, the Congress appointed Prashant Kishor to formulate the election strategy for the Punjab Assembly. The Congress returned to power in Punjab in 2017 through Prashant Kishore’s strategic campaign after two consecutive defeats. Congress appointed Kishore to contest the 2017 UP elections, but he did not succeed here.
Following this, YS Jaganmohan Reddy appointed Kishore as political advisor in May 2017. He engineered a series of campaigns for Reddy and the YSRCP returned to power by winning 151 out of 175 seats.
Kishor was the election strategist of the Aam Aadmi Party in the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections. The PPP successfully won 62 of the 70 seats in the election with an absolute majority. When Kishore was appointed as Trinamool Congress advisor for the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, his successful strategy led to Mamata Banerjee’s resounding victory of 213 seats out of 294. In 2021, he is the strategist of DMK president MK Stalin. Under his leadership, the DMK won the election with 159 seats and Stalin became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.
