Former election strategist Prashant Kishor has said that the state of “inertia” in Bihar has blunted politics, arguing that the position of power in his home state over the past three decades has been concentrated between just 1,200-1,300 families. .
The renowned data analyst made this claim at a press conference here, the headquarters of Vaishali district, where he launched a massive outreach program for his much talked about 3500 km long “padyatra”, which he proposed to launch on Gandhi . Jayanti.
“Bihar was one of the best governed states till the 1960s. The situation worsened in the late 1960s and by the 1990s we were at the bottom of all development indices. A feature of this period was political instability. In a span of 23 years (1967-1990), Bihar saw more than 20 governments,” he remarked.
Kishor, who has worked with the Chief Minister in his professional capacity Nitish Kumar RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Sunday reiterated that the situation in the state leaves much to be desired “even if we take Nitish ji’s claims of good governance and Lalu ji’s claims of social justice to be true”.
He has also named his state-specific political initiative ‘Jan Suraj’, rejecting suggestions that he was inspired by Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, which defeated deep-seated parties such as the Congress and the BJP, first in Delhi and more recently. Recently in Punjab.
“If I have taken inspiration from anyone, it is from Gandhi and the Congress of his time, when the party was not controlled by one family or one circle and one who had fire in his stomach was free to join and move on. ” They said.
“The reason why I have chosen Bihar is not just because it is my state… Firstly, we see the concentration of power here on a scale that has some parallels. In the last 30 years, all MLAs, MPs and The ministers have been from only 1,200-1,300 political families, irrespective of the CM’s chair.Imagine in a state where there are about three crore families, Kishor said.
He blamed “inertia” on the atmosphere “from the 1970s”, with “no social or political movement to fire the imagination of the common people”.
“Therefore, it is my priority to identify the ‘right people’ (right people). Once they are identified and given a platform, a party can come. Will the party be called ‘Jan Suraj’ or not? And things like whether Prashant Kishor will be its office bearer can be decided later,” he said.
Kishor, who is credited with the resounding success of Narendra Modi’s campaign in 2014, also dismissed suggestions that being an upper-caste Brahmin has harmed him in Bihar, where politics has been dominated by OBCs, especially Since the Mandal era.
“The people of Bihar have been fed on myths. I am aware of elections in many states. Everywhere caste matters as much as it is here. But, the society also has the capacity to rise above caste considerations,” he said.
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