{"id":320090,"date":"2020-02-18T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320090"},"modified":"2020-02-18T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T09:46:44","slug":"prashant-kishor-questions-nitishs-governance-model-set-to-launch-baat-bihar-ki-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prashant-kishor-questions-nitishs-governance-model-set-to-launch-baat-bihar-ki-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Kishor questions Nitish&#8217;s governance model, set to launch Baat Bihar Ki campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"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-302707 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/prashant-kishor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/prashant-kishor.jpg 573w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/prashant-kishor-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/prashant-kishor-478x420.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/>Political strategist Prashant Kishor, who was recently expelled from JDU, on Tuesday questioned the Nitish Kumar government&#8217;s development model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking at a press conference, Kishor said he will be starting a campaign titled &#8216;Baat Bihar Ki&#8217; which will begin from February 20. The programme is aimed at making Bihar one of the 10 best states in the country,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kishor said he will work towards developing young leaders in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kishor, who has always opposed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), said Nitish Kumar needs to spell out whether he is with the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi or those who support Nathu Ram Godse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIdeology of Mahatma Gandhi and that of Nathuram Godse, cannot go hand-in-hand,\u201d Kishor said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While talking about the party&#8221;s ideology. Kishor said, &#8220;Nitish Kumar always told us that the party can never leave the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. But now the party is with those people who support the ideology of Gandhi&#8217;s killer Nathuram Godse. Gandhiji and Godse cannot go together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kishor was expelled from JD(U) in January for questioning the party&#8217;s stand over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political strategist Prashant Kishor, who was recently expelled from JDU, on Tuesday questioned the Nitish Kumar government&#8217;s development model. Speaking at a press conference, Kishor said he will be starting a campaign titled &#8216;Baat Bihar Ki&#8217; which will begin from February 20. The programme is aimed at making Bihar one of the 10 best states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":302707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[5039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320090"}],"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=320090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320094,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320090\/revisions\/320094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}