Poll strategist Prashant Kishor is turning into another Amar Singh, says Uttar Pradesh Congress President Raj Babbar. The reason for this 'affectionate abuse' is that Kishor has been seen cosying up to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. He has also begun suggesting that the 'Mahagadbandhan' (which is yet to take form) should project someone from the minority community as the chief ministerial candidate  of Uttar Pradesh.


So Congress leaders from UP are now questioning Prasant Kishor about his brainchild of projecting Sheila Dikshit, a Brahmin, as the party's CM candidate. The Congress leaders are now asking how can both their strategy and the SP's be right.

UPCC leaders accuse Kishor is projecting himself and not the Congress and says the poll strategist's USP is that he worked with the Modi-Shah combine and ensured a historic win for the BJP in the Lok sabha polls.


Now that Kishor has worked with the JDU UPCC leaders feel he considers himself close to Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka  Gandhi, Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav, and now even Mulayam Singh Yadav, which has made him lose focus on the party.

UP CM Akhilesh Yadav has also begun to suspect the role of Prasant Kishor. Akhilesh's men are not being taken into confidence when Mulayam Singh met Prasant Kishor thrice. The Akhilesh camp also believes that Amar Singh played a role in wooing Prasant to Mulayam. The Akhilesh camp is taking solace in the fact that Nitish Kumar has abstained from 25th year function of the Samajwadi  Party.