Bihar assembly poll result is out today. Nitish kumar won, by partnering with RJD and Congress. The main strategist behind this campaign was Prashant Kishore. Yes, the same man from CAG of Modi's campaign. He formed a group called Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) who sits in the house in front of Nitish's office in Patna. The reason Prashant broke away from Modi camp was evident if I look him from an external consultant point of view, with respect to the party cadres.
Media report says Prashant, in addition to IPAC, managed to give a government contract to a Noida based company called Citizens Alliance for 'Badh Chala Bihar' campaign. This group came on government money and worked for JDU (Sushil Modi even complained about this publicly). My searches resulted the shocking fact- Citizens Alliance is actually the CFBI; in other words, the private limited company version of CFBI. Hence, thinking wildly, I could have been in Patna witnessing and working on the ground for the most dramatic election post the Delhi election.
I missed it! The reasons I did not join CFBI just after the offer letter- I had to negotiate for salary and the Twitter discussion was going on. Then after visiting the the CFBI office in Noida Sector 62, I could not take a decision as Twitter took longer time and Glassdoor reviews for CFBI were pathetic. After Twitter rejection, there was a thought; but I solely based on the Glassdoor review and decided not to open the CFBI thread.
In this whole period (from Deceber '14 to July'15), I didn't have the slightest clue about side switching of Prashant Kishore and conversion of CFBI to Citizens Alliance. I made a fool out of myself.
I am trying to console myself by various means why the decision was not a mistake, but the moot point is that I missed an opportunity which I could have easily used in Assam 2016 election as well. Between, media report says Prashant has an Assamese wife.
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