patna stung by poll strategistturnedpolitical activist prashant kishors frequent criticism of chief minister nitish kumars development model in bihar and his efforts to unite the opposition parties against bjp and pm narendra modi jdu national president rajiv ranjan alias lalan singh on sunday termed his partys former national vicepresident as a businessmanprashant kishor is not a political man he is a businessman and has been trying to promote and sell his products he does his business sometimes in up and sometimes in bihar punjab west bengal and andhra pradesh does he have any contribution in the development or growth rate of bihar from 2005 to 2022 lalan told a tv channel while trying to dismiss kishors observations referring to the 17 years of nitishs reign in biharlalans sharp reaction came a day after kishor said a branded adhesive company should make nitish its brand ambassador as he has broken alliances several times but remained on the cm chairduring his jan suraaj peoples contact programme in bihar since may kishor says nothing has substantially changed in the state during the last 17 years and stresses bihars backwardness on several parameters including poverty and unemployment in 2022 compared to 2005 when nitish took over the mantleprashant has been telling the media almost every day since nitish launched his campaign for opposition unity for the 2024 lok sabha polls after dumping bjp in bihar and forming the mahagathbandhan government with rjdcongress and other allies recently that the bihar cms decision was unlikely to have any national impact his comments irked nitish so much that the cm said his 2015 poll strategist hardly knows the abc of the work done in bihar since 2005 nitish also went to the extent of suggesting that kishor might be working covertly for bjphowever former karnataka cm h d kumaraswamy whom nitish had met in delhi after his meeting with congress leader rahul gandhi recently called on telangana cm k chandrashekar rao kcr on sunday amid speculation that the trs chief may launch a national party which will field candidates in the next elections in karnataka maharashtra andhra pradesh and gujarat besides the 2024 parliamentary pollsthe latest political development on the part of kcr may prove detrimental to the opposition unity efforts kcr had met nitish in patna at an official programme recently but had evaded the question on the probable pm face of nonbjp alliance if it materlaises at all since kcrs opposition to congress is well known kishors statement has logic that the opposition needs a matching narrative and groundwork reliable face and strong organization like bjp to challenge pm modi in the 2024 polls