Patna: Chief minister Nitish Kumar's JDU is again warming up to poll strategist Prashant Kishor, who was widely credited for the JDU-RJD-Congress Grand Alliance victory in the 2015 Bihar Assembly election.

The JDU, it is learnt, had been trying to rope-in Kishor again for some time now. Nitish met Kishor in Delhi on May 5 this year, and the strategist was also present at a meeting that the chief minister chaired at his 1 Aney Marg official residence on June 3 to discuss the party's strategy as an NDA ally when the Lok Sabha election is months away.

JDU secretary-general K.C. Tyagi and national general secretary Pavan Kumar Varma were also present at the meeting that decided to pursue the demand for special category status to Bihar, and to project Nitish as the topmost leader in the state.

"Our top leaders have decided that Kishor will attend all high-level party meetings in future. What does this mean? He (Kishor) is very much with the JDU now, though there has been no formal announcement as yet," a senior JDU leader said.

Another senior JDU leader said that Nitish has himself asked Kishor to attend all the high-level meetings of the party.

Varma confirmed that Nitish and Kishor are in constant touch, and added: "Kishor was present at the recent JDU meeting in Patna along with us, but I will not be the right person to say anything about his presence."

Kishor during his previous stint with Nitish was credited as the brain behind several steps to spread the JDU's message among the masses, including the song Bihar mein bahar hai, Nitishe Kumar hai. Kishor had also conceptualised the Bihar Vikas Mission before he and Nitish parted ways.

Kishor had worked with Narendra Modi for the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

Kishor could not be contacted as he was in Andhra Pradesh, meeting Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of the YSR Congress Party. A JDU source pointed that with Lok Sabha polls approaching fast, Kishor was back in business.