Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Sunday embarked on a 3,500-km padyatra (foot march) from Bhitiharwa Gandhi Ashram of West Champaran in Bihar. On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi who had launched his Satyagraha movement in 1917 from Bhitiharwa Ashram, Mr. Kishor began the foot march across Bihar under his Jan Suraaj (people’s good governance) campaign.
The padyatra will last 12-15 months and cover all 38 districts of the State. “During this yatra I’ll neither visit Delhi nor Patna but meet local people and get feedback on their basic problems,” Mr. Kishor said while setting off on his yatra on Sunday morning. A long carcade followed him when he made his way to the Bhitiharwa Gandhi ashram and people were seen garlanding him and shouting the slogan “ humara neta kaisa ho, Prashant Kishor jaisa ho (how should our leader be, like Prashant Kishor)”.
At Bhitiharwa, he was again given a warm reception by a gathering of mostly young men. Mr. Kishor also addressed them and asserted that he has come to Bihar to make “efforts for change in the governance of the State”. “Even my severest critic knows that I’ve some expertise in making people win elections. I will put up candidates in the coming election in the State who will give a befitting reply to my opponents ( unke daant khate kar denge)”, said Mr. Kishor at the Bhitiharwa meeting.
