Political strategist Prashant Kishor said in an interview that Jan Suraj, and not the two strong regional parties – Lalu Yadav-led RJD and Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (U), will win the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections.
Jan Suraj, which is yet to take the form of a political party, is a movement and campaign started by Kishor to connect with the people and understand local problems. Kishor had launched the ‘Jan Suraj’ Yatra on 2 October 2022, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
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In an interview india todayPrashant Kishore said, “I can tell you in writing that Jan Suraj will win on its own in Bihar in 2025″ [without joining any alliance]…Jan Suraj will contest 242 assembly seats and will come to power with a majority.”
“If that doesn’t happen…then I will leave everything and do whatever you suggest,” Kishore said during the interview.
When asked whether he would become the chief minister, Kishore said that he has not yet formed a political party nor has he declared himself as a candidate for the post of chief minister.
Kishor had earlier announced that the party to be formed after the ongoing ‘Jan Suraj’ campaign will contest the assembly elections in Bihar in 2025. He had said that the political party would be formed in the next few months.
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Earlier in April, Kishor had said there was a lot of space for a new party in Bihar as there was “maximum anti-incumbency” after nearly 35 years of rule by similar-minded parties led by Lalu Prasad Yadav or Nitish Kumar.
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“Almost similar structures have been formed around Lalu and Nitish for 35 years. Their ideologies are more or less the same,” he told PTI. He said issues like social justice, socialism and ‘jungle raj’ have remained the same all these years.
“The anti-incumbency wave is the highest there. There has been no fundamental change in these 35 years. According to me there is space here [for one party],” He said.
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Published: May 24, 2024, 07:35 PM IST
