Bengaluru: After facing setbacks in successive polls, the JD(S)leadership is planning to hold talks with poll strategist Prashant Kishor on plans to revive the party for the future, top party sources said on Thursday.
JD(S) leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy are slated to hold talks with Kishor soon on organising the party for the days ahead.
"Kumaraswamy is at it...his strategy has worked out in Bihar and other places, so we can try here also," a top party leader told Media, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Sources close to Kumaraswamy said the former chief minister has not yet held any discussions with Kishor, but they will meet very soon and the date is yet to be finalised.
"It is to discuss the strategy to build the party. Kishor is also said to have expressed keenness to meet Kumaranna (Kumaraswamy), they will meet soon," he added.
Not wishing to divulge details, JD(S) state president H K Kumaraswamy merely said there was nothing wrong in taking such help in the interest of the party.
"We can take advice from such people to build and organise the party. We have already began work towards organising the party from the grassroots level, and it will get a boost after the national level meets of the party on February 10 and 11," he added.
The JD(S) that bagged only 37 seats in the 2018 assembly polls and came to power in alliance with the Congress with H D Kumaraswamy as chief minister managed to win only one seat in the state during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.