PANAJI: Trinamool Congress drawing a blank in Goa has cast aspersions on India’s best-known political strategist
Prashant Kishor and his consultancy I-PAC, which has had major success in several states.
Seen as a litmus test for TMC’s national ambitions, the Goa polls left Bengal CM
Mamata Banerjee and Kishor scurrying for cover. Just 5% of the voters backed TMC. “The party’s poor performance is because Prashant Kishor botch- ed things up,” said a former
TMC member.
TMC decided to project former Tivim MLA Kiran Kandolkar as its local chief, a decision that not only came too late, but also backfired.
Kishor had also begun to distance himself from the Goa battle. “I am not involved in Goa,” Kishor said recently.