India, Nov. 24 -- Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday offered an advice to Jan Suraaj leader Prashant Kishor, whose party recently drew a blank in the Bihar assembly polls.

Sharing a life lesson on "numbers over ideology", Fadnavis said one cannot propagate an ideology without numbers and that one should be practical in politics.

"There are two ways to run a democracy... through ideology or through numbers. But you cannot propagate an ideology without numbers," the Maharashtra CM said in a public event in Mumbai, according to NDTV.

Fadnavis further said that one needs to be practical in politics, adding that one needs numbers to be relevant.

"He presented an ideological alternative in Bihar but could not win a singl...