Third Front, TMC expansion, BJP threat: Why Mamata wants to keep Prashant Kishor close

Prashant Kishor may be out of I-PAC, but his team has been retained by Mamata Banerjee till the 2026 assembly elections in West Bengal. Sources close to Mamata say she was not keen on releasing him, and apparently, has “different plans” for him now.

Prashant Kishor may be out of I-PAC, but his team has been retained by Mamata Banerjee till the 2026 assembly elections in West Bengal. Sources close to Mamata say she was not keen on releasing him, and apparently, has “different plans” for him now. So what is PK up to these days? “In the daytime, one cannot see the stars, but they are very much there,” a senior Trinamool Congress leader aptly described the situation. Though there has been no formal clarification on PK’s role in the Trinamool’s affairs, he is said to be unofficially assisting Mamata, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the party and state government.