Prashant Kishor Confirms He Will Contest Bihar Assembly Polls, Candidate List On 9 October

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Monday announced that he will contest the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, though he did not reveal the constituency from which he will be running. Kishor said his party’s list of candidates will be released on 9 October, Indiadotcom reported.

“The party will declare its list of candidates for the coming assembly polls on 9 October and it will be full of surprises. My name will also be there in the list,” he told reporters. When asked about his constituency, he said, “You will come to know on 9 October.”

The Election Commission earlier in the day announced that the Bihar elections will be held in two phases on 6 and 11 November, with counting scheduled for 14 November.

On his party’s prospects, Kishor claimed that Jan Suraaj would secure votes from the 28 per cent of voters who did not support either the NDA or the INDIA bloc in the last polls.

“In the last polls, the two alliances bagged votes of 72 per cent of voters only. I must clarify that we will get votes of the remaining 28 per cent of the voters. Besides, people say that Jan Suraaj Party will get 10 per cent votes each of both alliances. That means we are expected to get 48 per cent votes of the total electorate in the coming polls,” he said.

Kishor asserted that both major alliances would lose ground and predicted a major political shift in Bihar.

He said he was confident that this would be Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s last election. According to him, Nitish would not celebrate the next Makar Sankranti at 1 Anne Marg, the official residence of the Bihar chief minister.

Kishor added that voters were now ready to choose a new direction for the state, one focused on tackling migration and unemployment.

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