More than 85 per cent of employees working in Indian-Political Action Committee (IPAC) founded by Prashant Kishor will be removed from their job, as per a report by Sunday Guadian Live.
This news comes days after Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress emerged victorious in the West Bengal assembly elections.
The call to cull 85 per cent of his employees would mean that nearly 900 people who were part of the campaigning team in West Bengal assembly elections now stand to remain unemployed amid COVID.
The IPAC team consists of around 879 people, out of which 479 are core team members, and 400 employees were hired on a contract basis. As of now, Kishore’s organisation will only employ more than 150 members and have informally communicated to the contract employees that they would receive termination letters by email in the coming days.
After a successful campaign in West Bengal, I-PAC has told its employees that they should not expect any kind of job or favour from the West Bengal government and advised them to look for other opportunities.
However, most of the employees, who will be without a job had high hopes that the IPAC would retain them to assist the Mamata Banerjee-led government and provide “consultancy” after being attached with state government agencies.
Those who have been told to leave were reportedly given one month’s paid leave as the core team will move to Punjab a month later to assist Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress government for the February 2022 polls.
In another development, IPAC has already started the process of recruiting people for “campaign management” in Bihar, a state which is ruled by the NDA coalition.
Kishor, who is from Bihar and has considerable experience of working in Bihar, is aiming to chart his career as a political leader in Bihar. He had also worked with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who had appointed him as the Vice-President of JDU.
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