Patna: One month before the notification for the 2025 Assembly election was issued, Prashant Kishor, the poll strategist-turned-politician, reiterated in one interview after another that this was Nitish Kumar’s last term as the Bihar Chief Minister. “If Nitish’s JD(U) wins more than 25 seats, I will quit politics,” he asserted while giving one interview after another.

Brimming with over-enthusiasm, and at times over confident and arrogant too, PK presented himself as an alternate to all those who were tired of Mandal politics, bored of having a Chief Minister from the backward class (both Nitish and Lalu are OBCs) and one who hoped that a Brahmin face like PK could bring back the glory of upper caste which ruled Bihar most of the time till 1990.

But while declaring that his newbie outfit

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