Aaditya’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra was a key outreach plan devised by the IPAC. Kishor was also consulted by Shiv Sena scion Aaditya Thackeray in the just-concluded Maharashtra assembly elections. Nitish later broke the successful alliance to rejoin the BJP-led NDA, while Kishor also joined his party. Kishor and IPAC had crafted strategies for Amarinder Singh and the Congress in the Punjab assembly polls in 2017, as well as for the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-RJD-Congress Mahagathbandhan in Bihar. Headquartered in Hyderabad, the IPAC has a few feathers in its cap, with the most recent being Jagan Mohan Reddy and the YSR Congress Party’s successful run to power in the 2019 Andhra Pradesh assembly elections. However, the IPAC has helped parties regardless of their opposition to these parties in the past too. Kishor is a vice-president of BJP’s ally Janata Dal (United), and shot to fame by designing Narendra Modi and the BJP’s successful Lok Sabha election campaign in 2014. Sunil and Prashant Kishor had co-founded Citizens for Accountable Governance, the precursor to the IPAC in political consultancy. The DMK has signed up with Kishor after its strategist for the 2016 assembly and 2019 parliamentary polls, Sunil K., stepped down last week. Neither side has, however, issued an official statement on the partnership. After some initial speculation, a senior DMK leader confirmed the development to ThePrint. Stalin Monday, apparently to seal the deal. Chennai: Election strategist Prashant Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) has now signed on to help the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in the 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly elections.
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