New Delhi: The Janata Dal-United (JDU) Vice-President Prashant Kishor has stepped down from his post of in-charge of campaigning and management of the party, just two weeks ahead of the first phase of polling in Bihar. Prashant made this announcement on Friday, March 29, before tweeting that JDU leader and Rajya Sabha member Ram Chandra Prasad Singh will take care of electioneering and management of the party.

Prashant tweeted, “NDA, under the guidance of Modi and Nitish, is very vigorously fighting the elections in Bihar. The responsibility of electioneering and management by JD(U) is on the strong shoulders of Shri RCP Singh Ji, the preferred leader of the party. My role in these early stages of my politics is learning and collaborating.”

Kishor, in a TV interview, had said that Nitish Kumar should have gone for a fresh mandate after he changed sides from Mahagathbandhan to NDA. This had stirred displeasure within the party.

However, Prashant’s decision came as a surprise in political circles because Kishor, a political strategist and vice-president of JDU, was expected to take care of the party’s strategies during the Lok Sabha elections.