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NEW DELHI: Talking about Trinamool Congress’s meticulous preparation against BJP in West Bengal, poll manager Prashant Kishore made a telling comment about Congress’s inability to fight BJP, saying that a party cannot get up a fortnight before polls and think it can win. The barb, aimed at the Congress leadership, has takers within the party as insiders are terming the debacle in five state polls as yet another wake up call and it may soon be too late. Leaders say there is an urgent need for the leadership to put competent and credible people in key organisational positions and bring abo...

Modi loses a battle in the 'war for Indian democracy' © EPA Trinamool Congress supporters celebrate their party's win on Sunday "This is a war for Indian democracy," Prashant Kishore, a political strategist, had told me in March about the elections in the state of West Bengal. We were sitting in his office in the eastern city of Kolkata while a noisy nightclub next door throbbed with revellers, completely oblivious to the looming second wave of Covid-19 infections. Mr Kishore was helping forge the campaign of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her regional Trinamool Congress (...

Assembly Elections In 5 States: Implications For National Politics Published by GulteDesk May 03, 2021 The vibrancy of India’s political spectrum is once again evident from the people’s verdict in five states. India’s national polity is a total of state-level political spectra. The regional and smaller parties constitute half of India’s political space for several decades. The BJP could successfully trounce its national rival Congress. The grand old party has no face, narrative to offer as an alternative to the BJP. The congress, as Prashant Kishore puts it, lacks fire and zeal to ...

The Most Important Lesson From the West Bengal Election Election analysis Master strategist Prashant Kishore made a significant point in an interview to NDTV that seems to have escaped the headlines that seem to be centred around his decision to quit managing the election strategy of leaders across the political spectrum. The point he made, while explaining his strategy for West Bengal, was that it should be understood that polarisation has a limit. There is so much it can do and no more. And that the Bharatiya Janata Party through the hype its propaganda machinery is able to create puts al...

Bengal has shown how dispensable ideology is May 1, 2021, 10:18 PM IST The writer is a political analyst associated with Peoples Pulse Politics has always been a muddy terrain of smoke and mirrors. The closely contested Battle of Bengal 2021 is a classic example of this. Led by two strong personalities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Mamata Banerjee, it turned into a kind of guerrilla war where everything seemed free and fair. For both sides, BJP and Trinamool, mudslinging, ridicule and ad-hominem attacks emerged as indispensable elem...