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In a combative interview with Sreenivasan Jain, Jan Suraaj supremo and political consultant-turned-politician Prashant Kishor is pressed on whether his policy blueprint for Bihar is realistic. On the question of jobs, Kishor says his first priority is to stem Bihar’s labour exodus by creating opportunities for daily wage work within the state. Asked what about the millions in Bihar who want aspirational jobs, not daily wage jobs, Kishor replied that they will have to wait.

Asked what would happen to the vast majority of children unable to secure admission into the limited “world-class” schools he has promised to build in every block, Kishor replied that under his proposed voucher system those children could go to a private school, or continue attending regular government schools. He also asserted that, if his party forms the government, they would work to improve the regular government schools of the state, however, he admits that such a process would take ten years to complete.

When questioned about having received 11 crores from Navayuga Engineering for two hours of consultancy work, Kishor made a stunning claim that he never mentioned that the payment was only for ‘two hours’ of consulting, directly contradicting his earlier statement during a recent press conference. Asked if Narendra Modi has been an ineffective Prime Minister, Kishor said that Narendra Modi has been an “ineffective Prime Minister for Bihar”, but refused to comment on the overall performance of PM Modi, stating that is “not the issue he wants to focus on”.

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