Prashant Kishor enrols as voter in Mamata Banerjee’s constituency

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 26

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor, who helped the TMC win the recent Assembly elections, has registered himself as a voter of the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.

The BJP alleged that Kishor became an elector from the constituency to vote for Banerjee. Kishor was earlier a voter in his native village in Bihar’s Sasaram district.

“Daughter of Bengal wants votes of outsiders? People of Bengal will like to know,” tweeted Bengal BJP media in-charge Saptarshi Chowdhury, taking a dig at Banerjee, who calls the BJP “a party of outsiders”.

Records, however, show that Kishor got himself enrolled as a voter of Bhabanipur before April 7. Sources said he had cast his vote when Bhabanipur went to polls on April 26.

TMC’s Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, who won the seat in the elections, later resigned to pave the way for Mamata to contest from Bhabanipur.

It is learnt that Kishor opted to enrol himself as a voter in Bhabanipur as he was apprehensive that the BJP might attempt to coerce the Election Commission to pass an order asking him to leave Kolkata in the middle of the polls.

Kishor used to stay with Abhishek Banerjee, TMC general secretary, in Kolkata during the Covid lockdown. Abhishek’s residence has been mentioned by Kishor as his address in the voters’ list.