The Trinamool Congress has struck a deal with professional strategist and JD(U) leader Prashant Kishore and tasked him with the responsibility of charting roadmaps for the TMC’s revival in the 2021 State elections.
Kishore held a closed door parley with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee for about two hours on Thursday.
The electoral strategist is credited with planning Narendra Modi’s electoral campaigns in 2014 and YSR chief Jagan Mohan’s victory in Andhra Pradesh in the recently concluded elections.
The 42-year-old professional-turned-politician would take up the responsibility of upping TMC’s TRP in Bengal politics through a series of research works, sources said.
He will begin his work in July when his team will reach Bengal and visit all the districts till the lowest level, find out the issues, assess the element and measure of polarisation, factor in the organizational weaknesses and the reason of popular discontent besides reckoning the “outreach of Mamata Banerjee’s developmental project in real terms,” a senior party leader said.
After his team has done its field work Kishore will suggest ways to Mamata Banerjee for her party’s electoral revival in Bengal, sources said.
Pooh-pooing the move State BJP president Dilip Ghosh however said that “no amount of professional touch” would be able to revive a moribund party the TMC was today. “They are hated more than CPI(M) in Bengal. Their fall and decimation is only a matter of time because the people of Bengal have made up their mind to do away with Mamata Banerjee and her goons,” Ghosh said.