Days after the poll strategist’s political consultancy firm I-PAC was roped in by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the Delhi Assembly election, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said, “Who is Prashant Kishor?” Replying to a question at a Press conference, Puri who is also the co-incharge of the BJP for the Delhi polls, said he did not know Kishor personally.
“Who is Prashant Kishor?,” he asked, when a question was put to him about I-PAC being roped in by the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP ahead of the Delhi polls, slated to be held early next year.
When reporters told the Minister that Kishor was a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, he said, "I was not there during that time." "May be I should know, but I do not know him (Kishor)," Puri said on being told by reporters that he was also part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) — the national vice-president of the Janata Dal (United).