"You are not defeated until you quit," said Prashant Kishor in his first public reactions after the NDA swept the Assembly election in Bihar. And far from quitting, the Jan Suraaj chief came out as the main Opposition leader, challenging the victorious JD(U)-BJP combine. PK's press conference came even as RJD's Tejashwi Yadav and Congress's Rahul Gandhi remained conspicuous in their post-poll absence.

Prashant Kishor not only promised to help women to get the promised money by the incoming NDA government, he also timed a 24-hour period of silence and hunger with the Nitish Kumar-led ministry's oath-taking ceremony on November 20.

PK's choice of the venue for the "repentance" is symbolic too. While the Nitish Kumar government will take oath at Patna's Gandhi Maidan, PK will be fasting

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