Prashant kishore my factor: Electoral mercury has started climbing in Bihar politics and this time the battle is being fought not only on the streets, but also on Lalu Prasad Yadav’s strongest fort i.e. Muslim-Yaadav (My) equation. Political strategist -turned -politician Prashant Kishore has directly attacked the equation. His claims and strategy have not only created a stir in the RJD camp, but have also opened a new chapter in the traditional politics of Bihar. Prashant Kishore believes that this equation will no longer work, and the arguments he has given behind it is very shocking.
Within JDU 25, RJD’s ‘My’ factor fails
With the confidence in which Prashant Kishore claimed to get BJP less than 100 seats in the 2021 Bengal elections, he is now predicting Bihar with the same confidence. He says that in 2025, Nitish Kumar’s party JDU will be reduced within 25 seats. Along with this, he presented the biggest challenge for Tejashwi Yadav and said that the Muslim-Yadav equation of RJD will no longer work. PK has focused special focus on the Muslim vote bank through his ‘Jan Suraj’ campaign, and has made his intention clear by saying that he should give tickets to 40 Muslim candidates.
‘Postmortem’ of My Factor: PK’s shocking argument
Prashant Kishore is organizing ‘Bihar Parivartan Ijlas’ in Bihar, where they are directly communicating with the Muslim community. He says, “You were repeatedly told that you are a minority … The leaders have made you mentally weak, while you should have 40 MLAs in proportion to the population, but Bihar has only 19 MLAs.”
The most spicy attack of PK is when they say, “The equation is not M-Y, the equation is Y-M.” He argues that where the people of Yadav society stand, Muslims ‘fear of fear’ vote them, while when the Muslim candidate stands, the people of Yadav society do not vote, but half vote for the BJP. This argument is directly an attempt to break into Lalu-Tejaswi’s stronghold.
Muslim voters have been burning as ‘lantern oil’?
Prashant Kishore addresses Muslim voters emotionally, saying that he has been burning as ‘lantern oil’, but now he is going to extinguish the light. They tell the Muslim community to stop fear and ‘Do not be afraid of anyone except Allah’. PK advises him to form a new alliance on the basis of Mahatma Gandhi, Babasaheb Ambedkar and socialist ideology, so that they can fight the BJP’s ideology. He asks the RJD, what was done for the education and employment of Muslim children in the last 30 years except showing the fear of BJP?
RJD’s counter attack and future fight
In response to these attacks of Prashant Kishore, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav is also holding a front on his behalf. Tejashwi says, “We will not spread love, not hate. We will make identity in the name of karma, not in the name of religion.” They say that RJD will take everyone with everyone. This electoral battle is now being fought not only on caste equations, but also on ideology, development and vote bank politics. If Prashant Kishore’s strategy is successful, then the face of Bihar politics can change forever. At the moment, everyone’s eyes are on whether Lalu’s decades -old My equation will be able to face this ‘digital and ground’ attack of Prashant Kishore.
