You can’t beat BJP without ideological unity: Prashant Kishor advises Opposition
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New Delhi: Noted election strategist Prashant Kishor said on Monday that an Opposition front against the BJP nationally would not work by bringing together parties with desperate ideologies.
Kishor, who previously questioned the impact of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, said Opposition unity is a ‘façade’, according to a report by NDTV.
Urging the Opposition parties to understand the BJP’s strength, Kishor pointed out three pillars upon which the saffron party is banking, namely: Hindutva, nationalism and welfarism.
Unless at least two of these three levels are breached, the Opposition will not be able to challenge the BJP, he told NDTV in an interview.
The political strategist called for a coalition of ideologies including ‘Gandhiwadi, Ambedkarites, socialists, communists’ to fight the Hindutva ideology.
While media look at who is having lunch with whom in the context of alliance politics, he said he would rather look for any unity on the basis of ideologies, without which the BJP cannot be defeated, he added.
The poll strategist, who is currently touring Bihar for a "Jan Suraaj Yatra" as part of what he said an effort to understand and create a new political system, said he follows ‘Mahatma Gandhi's ideology’.
Kishor, also called as "PK" in political circles after pulling off some election victories since 2014, explained the reason why fell out with the Congress.
Where his goal was to ‘reincarnation of the Congress’, the leadership wanted only to win the election and he was against the way they wanted to ‘implement my ideas’.