New Delhi: Ahead of 2022 surveys, political specialist and strategist Prashant Kishor has stopped as head counselor to Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, saying he had chosen to take a “brief break” from a functioning job in open life.
“Taking into account my choice to take an impermanent break from a functioning job in open life, I’ve not had the option to assume control over the obligations as your Principal Advisor. I demand you to compassionately mitigate me from this obligation,” Prashant Kishor wrote in a letter to the Captain.
The Captain had delegated Kishor as his Principal Advisor with rank and status of a Cabinet serve in March this year.
The CMO had said that Kishor would be working free and will be paid Re 1 every month as a symbolic honorarium. Notwithstanding, he will be qualified for advantages including an administration home, about six staff individuals, free vehicle, free air travel, phone and clinical offices.
Amarinder had brought Kishor installed in front of the 2017 surveys. The excellent old gathering under Captain’s authority got a pounding greater part winning 77 seats.
Kishor is looking for a public job in Congress and as indicated by a TOI report needs a “section” in the dynamic of the gathering’s issues.
Kishor has likewise recommended that central leadership should shape an extraordinary warning panel, under the chairpersonship of gathering president Sonia Gandhi. The board will take every one of the political choices like shaping partnerships and finishing effort procedures.
Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) had helped Trinamool Congress in halting the BJP juggernaut in West Bengal. While Mamata Banerjee’s gathering sacked 213 seats, the saffron party won 77.
Prior to the outcomes, the political specialist had anticipated that the BJP would not cross 100 seats in Bengal.
Remunerating Kishor, TMC expanded its relationship with I-PAC till the following gathering political decision in 2026.