Election strategist Prashant Kishor resurfaced on Friday after his Lok Sabha prediction of BJP getting close to 303 seats went wrong. In in interview to India Today, he said that he would no longer be predicting seat numbers in elections anymore.
He said, “I had put my assessment in front of you and I have to admit on camera that the assessment that I did was wrong in terms of numbers by a big 20 per cent. We were saying BJP would get somewhere close to 300 and they got 240. But I had earlier said that there was a little anger, but no widespread discontent against Narendra Modi.”
Prashant added, “I had also said that there was no positive clamour from the opposition and that is why a status quo is being created with some geographical expansion in the east and south. Now, obviously, we have been proved wrong. But if you just go beyond the numbers, it's not that wrong. Because ultimately, they got 36 per cent vote share, which is the status quo. 0.7 per cent down in terms of vote share.”
Prashant went on to add, “As a strategist, I should not have got into numbers. I never used to. It is just in the last two years that I have made the mistake of getting into the numbers — once during the Bengal Assembly election and now in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Notably, if you remove the numbers, everything that I said was right.”
Well, it looks like Prashant has broken-up with the numbers game for good.
