Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on July 4 said the Opposition unity drive would reap electoral benefits only if it came up with a "narrative" and did not rely solely on "arithmetic".
Talking to reporters in Bihar's Samastipur district, he refused to attach much political importance to the split in NCP in Maharashtra and the CBI chargesheet against Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
"A combined Opposition can work only if it succeeds in creating a narrative against the regime. The Janata Party experiment came on the back of the Emergency and Jayaprakash Narayan's mass movement. During V.P. Singh's rule, the Bofors scandal had caught public imagination," said the IPAC founder.
