'People Of This Country Are Not Fools' — Prashant Kishor Slams RJD For Poster Depicting Nitish Kumar As PM In 2024

Election strategist Prashant Kishor hit out at the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for their representation of Nitish Kumar as the Prime Minister of India in 2024.

He made his comments in response to the RJD displaying a poster outside its party office featuring the Bihar Chief Minister as the Prime Minister of India in 2024.

The poster portrayed Kumar seated on a chair, and encircled by the top opposition leaders from various political parties, such as Rahul Gandhi of the Congress, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The poster was propped up just days after Kumar and Tejashwi Prasad Yadav met with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, as well as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in the national capital.

The RJD poster was later taken down by the party workers to prevent any controversy.

"I must say that RJD is the party having no MPs in the Parliament. Out of 543 Lok Sabha members, RJD has zero representation.

"I have done several such works of making PM at national level and nobody else has done it. RJD has won more seats in assembly; it does not mean that they can do anything.

"Forget the Prime Minister, I can put up posters outside my house and can make you sit on the chair of the American President. They should first ensure to make at least one MP in RJD. The people of this country are not fools who will listen to the RJD," Kishor said in Vaishali district, during his Jan Suraj Abhiyan, started last year on 2 October 2022.

Kumar has said he does not aspire to be the opposition's prime minister candidate.

Speaking about Kumar specifically, Kishor claimed the Chief Minister of Bihar has changed since 2014, and has compromised on corruption to stay in power.

“I am telling this on record that in 2015 cabinet portfolio was being distributed and I was there with Nitish ji. Lalu ji had sent the proposal for four RJD MLAs to make them minister but their names were not cleared because their background was not clean. Now those four MLAs are ministers in the cabinet of Nitish Kumar.

"He is not the same Nitish to whom people of Bihar gave the mandate on the name good governance. Nitish Kumar is doing all kinds of work which used to happen during Jungle Raj. Be it protecting the criminal, supporting corruption, giving shelter to liquor and the sand mafia. He is doing everything to remain in power,“ Kishor claimed.