Janata Dal (United) vice president Prashant Kishor on Tuesday slammed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu for calling him a “Bihari dacoit”. In a tweet, Kishor said that Naidu is frustrated because his defeat in the Assembly and Lok Sabha polls is imminent.

“An imminent defeat can rattle even the most seasoned politicians. So I’m not surprised with the baseless utterances of Chandrababu Naidu,” he said in a tweet and tagged the Andhra Chief Minister.

Kishor also advised Naidu to focus on people of his own state rather than showing his malice against the people of Bihar. “Sirji rather than using derogatory language that shows your prejudice and malice against Bihar, just focus on why people of Andhra Pradesh should vote for you again,” the JD(U) leader said.


On Monday, Naidu during a rally called Kishor a “Bihari dacoit” and accused him of being the mastermind behind the deletion of voters of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) sympathisers.

“K Chandrashekar Rao is doing criminal politics. He is grabbing the MLAs of Congress and TDP. Bihari dacoit Prasant Kishore has removed lakhs of votes in Andhra Pradesh,” he said while addressing a rally in Ongole.

Kishor is a poll strategist and is assisting the YSR Congress Party of Jaganmohan Reddy in the state. The Andhra CM’s remark come close on the heels of a massive political slugfest between TDP and TRS over alleged tampering of voters’ data in Andhra Pradesh.