Jaan Suraj Party picked Prashant Kishore as Bihar’s ‘most popular’ CM Pick – a look at its pole strategy

Jan Suraj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishore challenged on May 30, “Declare Niti Kumar as the Chief Minister’s candidate, if he is the NDA’s face,”Bihar Badal YatraMr. Kishore, a political strategist who played an important role in making several political campaigns, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar, is establishing himself as a third option near Mahagathandan (RJD-Congress-Left) and National Democratic Alliance (BJP-JDU-LJP) in Bihar.

Talk to HinduOn Thursday (June 5, 2025), JSP Executive Chairman Mr. Manoj Bharti picked up Mr. Kishore as a possible CM candidate. “He is the most popular option for CM in Bihar. The whole country and Bihar should forget about Nitish Kumar in the upcoming elections. There is no way that he can be in any situation to drive anything in the next government. We are not going for any alliance before or before voting.

Since October 2022, Mr. Kishore has visited Bihar on the route, highlighted major issues like unemployment, migration and inflation in the state, 5000 km in 17 districts. Two years later, he launched ‘Jaan Suraj PartyWith the ‘one’ human first ‘approach, aiming to build a Bihar, where people from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and Punjab come in search of work. ,

Within days, the popularity of his new party among the public was tested. While JSP failed to open its accounts in November 2024, Bai-Poles-Ramgarh, Belganj, Imamganj and Tarari-Shri Kishore, held for four seats, expressed satisfaction with 10% of the total votes in these seats.

There is a look at the origin, travel, objectives and voting strategy of Jan Suraj here.

Prashant Kishore’s visit to Bihar

Prashant Kishore has been active in making pole campaigns strategic since 2012. After successfully assisting Mr. Modi as Gujarat CM in 2012 and later as Prime Minister, Mr. Kishore first led by Bihar as Bihar in 2015. 243-member assembly.

Despite Mr. Kumar’s shifting loyalty, he retained Mr. Kishore as his political advisor, even appointed JD (U) vice -president and his potential ‘successor’. However, Mr. Kishore’s term ended with JDU In 2020, he strongly opposed the party’s support for the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Expelled from JDU in January that year, Mr. Kishore launched ‘Baat Bihar’. A campaign to attract–people that helps Bihar to stay in the right place between the top 10 states of India in the next 10-15 years. ”

In the next two years, Mr. Kishore hit the field with him ‘Bat Bihar’s campaignA padyatra undertaking across the state. Tampering Mr. Kumar for poverty in Bihar, he claimed that the 15 -year NDA rule did not make any development in the state. As a caste survey was conducted in Bihar, Mr. Kishore questioned why Mr. Kumar did not increase the limit of reservation, gave financial assistance to poor and homeless families, or handed over land rights to Dalit farmers. The JSP has promised to decide on the implementation of these promises after forming the government.

In October 2024, Mr. Kishore announced the introduction of JSP on the basis of five principles, including a one -year term for his party president and two years for its council members, and a process in a process similar to primary organized by parties in the United States. The JSP has promised to announce the initial nominees in March and the last candidate for every seat by November. The party advocated the ‘Right to Recall’ system for public representatives and Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar has promised to display both on his official flag.

The JSP’s entry was opposed by RJD, in which Mr. Kishore was accused of acting as ‘BJP’s B-Team’. RJD MP Misa Bharti said, “In search of Mr. Kishore’s entry as a trick to the OBC and upper castes against each other,” In response, Mr. Kishore chose Manoj Bharti, born in Madhubani, a former diplomat and a Dalit, promised to build a developed Bihar, as the first working president of the party.

JSP’s election performance

In November 2024, JSP faced its first election test as it fielded candidates for the by-elections. Tarari, Ramgarh, Belganj and ImamganjAs his legislators were recently elected to the Lok Sabha. In Tarari, JSP fielded Kiran Singh against Vishal Prashant of BJP – son Bahubali (Strongman) Narendra Kumar Pandey-and Raju Yadav of CPI-ML. The BJP managed to wrestle the seat from CPI-ML, while JSP finished third with 5622 votes. In Ramgarh, JSP instigated Sushil Singh Kushwaha to woo the Kushwaha community against BJP’s Ashok Kumar Singh and RJD’s Ajit Kumar Singh and capitalize on the division of votes. However, the BJP also succeeded in wrestling this seat from RJD as JSP finished fourth with 6513 votes.

In Belganj, which has a population of a large Muslim and extremely backward class (EBC), the JSP gave the ground to Mohammed. Amjad against two heavyweight – Vishwanath Kumar Singh of RJD and Manorama Devi of Jadu. Mr. Kishore’s gambling failed as Manorama Devi of Jadu, wife Bahubali Bindi Yadav, Mr. Amjad tried by a margin of 56,049 votes. In Imamganj, JSP fielded NDA’s associate Hindustani Awam Morcha (secular), a famous pediatrician of the region, Jeetanandra Paswan, who is the daughter -in -law of the party’s head Jatan Ram Manjhi. Mr. Paswan failed to dent Ms. Manjhi’s vote share as she gave 37,103 votes.

In view of Pole dhabbingFormer MPs Devendra Prasad Yadav and Monazir Hasan left the party. However, Mr. Kishore remained unaffected, if voted in power, the promise of fulfilling them should be fulfilled-the redemption should be raised and liquor tax should be spent on education, offering a low-onion loan to the working class with better disburses, and provided a monthly pension of ₹ 2000 for senior citizens. The JSP has also promised land improvement and easy loans for women providing necessary guarantee with the state government.

JSP was also merged with his outfit AAP AAP AAP AAP party on 18 May 2025. Mr. Singh, a former IAS officer, who is known for his booth-level organizational skills in JDU, fell with Mr. Kum and was shifted to half in October 2024. A mistake of Bihar’s bifurcation and prohibition.

“According to some estimates, about 20,000 crore tax revenue from alcohol is not being used. Prohibition is only on paper. Liquor is not available in shops, but is available for home delivery. Whoever wants to consume it, can get it at a premium price. Bharati.

Factors affecting JSP’s strategy and its possibilities

The passage of Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 during this year’s parliamentary budget session gave rise to questions about the possible impact on elections in Bihar, where Muslims create about 18% of the population. according to a Locenity-csDS surveyMahagathdanan has given birth to Muslim votes in the last three decades. In 2005, Mahagatdhan took 40% of the Muslim vote, while the NDA voted only 4% of the community’s votes.

In the later elections (2010, 2015 and 2020), Nitish Kumar’s shifting loyalty has either extended the Muslim vote towards an alliance. With the NDA, JDU helped in the alliance by raising 21% of the support from Muslims, while RJD voted 32% Muslim votes, and the Congress, who was not an associate with RJD, received 22% of the votes. In 2015, JDU tied up with RJD and supported 69% Muslims, while NDA received only 6% of the community vote share. Five years later, 76% of Muslims voted for RJD-Congress alliance, while only 5% of Muslims supported NDA.

The Lokniti -CSDS survey concluded that JD (U) -BJP alliance has never been a primary option for Muslim voters, which is unlikely to have a significant electoral change in 2025.

“NDA has little reason for worrying in Bihar,” said Lokeneity-CSDS analysts in a column Hindu, To dismiss the impact of JSP in these elections. However, Mr. Bharti is disagreed.

“We have a selection process that reacts from the ground from the village level, from the block level, before evaluating the candidates. From the division level. Per seat, at least 5-10 potential candidates are nominated, one of which will be selected,” he says. The party is following the same pattern to identify the candidates, which was used by the political counseling firm Indian political action committee (I-PAC), which is an organization established by Mr. Kishore.

Instead of castes, JSP has divided Bihari society into five broad classes – forward, backward, extremely poor, Muslim and Dalit. “Depending on their percentage in the population, according to the census of the caste in Bihar, we will distribute tickets for all 243 seats. For example, 18–19%of Muslims will be formed, so they will be given 40 seats,” says Mr. Bharti. Asked if a Muslim candidate will be selected in the Muslim-Bahumat constituency, he says, “Yes, it will be the main criteria.”

Mr. Kishore has indicated on his own Poll debut from RaghopurThe seat has been held from 2015 by Luu Yadav’s chosen heirs, Tejashvi Yadav. Raghopur, which belongs to the Vaishali district, has a large population of Rajputs in the Yadav-witted area, which opens the way for JSP to divide the upper caste vote in the seat.