{"id":317819,"date":"2019-12-14T07:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317819"},"modified":"2019-12-14T07:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:17:18","slug":"prashant-kishors-i-pac-coming-on-board-with-us-says-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prashant-kishors-i-pac-coming-on-board-with-us-says-arvind-kejriwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Kishor\u2019s I-PAC coming on board with us, says Arvind Kejriwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315236 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kejriwal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/kejriwal.jpg 545w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/kejriwal-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that his party has signed up with election strategist Prashant Kishor\u2019s I-PAC for the assembly elections due next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHappy to share that @indianpac is coming on-board with us. Welcome aboard!\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I-PAC in reply to Kejriwal\u2019s tweet said, \u201cAfter Punjab results, we acknowledged you as the toughest opponent that we have ever faced. Happy to join forces now with @ArvindKejriwal and @AamAadmiParty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kishor, who is also the vice-president of the Janata Dal (United) had worked with Narendra Modi during the Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s Gujarat 2012 campaign and the Lok Sabha 2014 election, but later developed differences and went his separate way to working for BJP\u2019s political rivals, including the Grand Alliance in Bihar and the Congress in Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the JD(U) supported the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Parliament, Kishor took to Twitter and said: &#8220;Disappointed to see JD-U supporting CAB that discriminates right of citizenship on the basis of religion. It&#8217;s incongruous with the party&#8217;s constitution that carries the word secular thrice on the very first page and the leadership that is supposedly guided by Gandhian ideals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, Kishor said that the task of saving the soul of India lies with the 16 non-BJP chief ministers who have to operationalise the amended Citizenship Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe majority prevailed in Parliament. Now beyond judiciary, the task of saving the soul of India is on 16 Non-BJP CMs as it is the states who have to operationalise these acts. 3 CMs (Punjab\/Kerala\/WB) have said NO to #CAB and #NRC. Time for others to make their stand clear,\u201d he tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I-PAC is currently working on the Trinamool Congress&#8217; re-election campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that his party has signed up with election strategist Prashant Kishor\u2019s I-PAC for the assembly elections due next year. \u201cHappy to share that @indianpac is coming on-board with us. Welcome aboard!\u201d Kejriwal tweeted. I-PAC in reply to Kejriwal\u2019s tweet said, \u201cAfter Punjab results, we acknowledged you as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[12189,12190,5039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317820,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317819\/revisions\/317820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}