Wrong pass by Prashant Kishor, TMC fails to score in Goa

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.

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