Jan Suraaj Party founder and former political strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday announced that he will contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, PTI reported.
“The party will declare its list of candidates for the coming Assembly polls on October 9, and it will be full of surprises,” Kishor told reporters. “My name will also be there in the list.”
The former poll strategist, however, did not disclose the constituency from which he will contest.
On Monday, the Election Commission announced that the Assembly elections in Bihar will be held in two phases on November 6 and November 11. The counting of votes will take place on November 14.
Kishor claimed that the Jan Suraaj Party would secure the support of the 28% of voters who did not vote for either the National Democratic Alliance or the Opposition INDIA bloc in the previous election, PTI reported.
He also predicted that Nitish Kumar would not remain chief minister after the polls. “I am saying it with full confidence that this will be the last election of Nitish Kumar,” he said.
In October 2024, Kishor officially launched the Jan Suraaj party in Patna, saying that he intended to create a united alternative party for the citizens of Bihar.
Kishor, in his previous role a political consultant, had been involved in the campaign that saw the Bharatiya Janata Party come to power in 2014 by securing the absolute majority in the Lok Sabha.
His political consultancy firm, the Indian Political Action Committee, or I-PAC for short, was also believed to have led the Janata Dal (United) to victory in the 2015 Bihar Assembly election, the Trinamool Congress to victory in West Bengal in 2021, the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi during Assembly elections in 2020 and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu in 2021.
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