Prashant Kishor meets Mamata, agrees to work with TMC in West Bengal

Kolkata, June 06: Trinmaool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met with political strategist Prashant Kishor. The political strategist has reportedly agreed to with her.

Kishor is being credited with much of YSR Congress's victory with an overwhelming majority and the humiliating defeat of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu.

In the past, Kishor was the chief strategist for Prime Minister Modi's election campaign in 2014, after which he statrted his own company called IPAC that engineered the poll campaign in Punjab for Captain Amarinder Singh.

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In 2015, Kishor worked for the JD(U) when the party was a part of Mahagathbandhan in Bihar and led the grand alliance to their landslide victory in the assembly elections.

In West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool faced a fierce fight from the BJP where the party won 18 seats while the Trinamool won 21 seats in the states.