Hyderabad: Prashant Kishore, founder of IBAC and a well-known election strategist, is the Chief Minister of Telangana Chandrasekhar Rao It has been reported that they met and consulted. He has been consulting since next year’s election.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Telangana Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao have stepped down in an attempt to form a non-Congress front to face the BJP in the 2024 general elections. Following this, Chandrasekhar Rao has been meeting non-BJP state chief ministers and key party leaders. A few days ago, he met former Prime Minister and secular Janata Dal leader HD Deve Gowda and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uttam Thackeray. In the midst of this, he is said to have met election magician Prashant Kishore last week.
Telangana will go to the polls in December next year. Chandrasekhar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi Party, which is seeking a third term in power, plans to hire Prashant Kishor’s iPac. It has been reported that Rao is meeting him on this basis. The meeting between the two has been confirmed by some Telugu media. However, reports say that no formal agreements have been signed between the two sides.
According to Prashant Kishore, he has in the past contested elections for Mukherjee Stalin in Tamil Nadu, Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and Jaganmohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh. It has been reported that KCR may have met Prasanth Kishore on the basis that he was the one who sought their success.