"This is quite a game, politics. There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests," US Congressman William Clay had famously said which is now oft-quoted to cite the harsh, rugged nature of realpolitik that has become the mainstay of all political arrangement in India.
Sans any ideology, belief or any political philosophy, poll strategist Prashant Kishor seemed to have imbibed the aforesaid maxim after he agreed to work for West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her party Trinamool Congress, for the 2021 Assembly polls in Bengal where the embattled chief minister faces a tough contest post the 2019 saffron surge in the eastern state.