Bihar Assembly election: Won’t contest Bihar polls, will work to strengthen party, says Prashant Kishor

Jan Suraaj Occasion founder Prashant Kishor on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) introduced that he is not going to contest the Bihar Meeting polls, a choice, he claimed, was taken by the celebration for its larger good.

In an unique interview with PTI, the previous political strategist additionally stated {that a} “tally of lower than 150 seats” for Jan Suraaj will probably be thought of a defeat.

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“If Jan Suraaj Occasion wins the Bihar polls, it’ll have a nationwide influence. The compass of nationwide politics will level in a special path,” Mr. Kishor asserted.

The Bihar polls will probably be held in two phases, on November 6 and November 11, and the counting will happen on November 14.

“The celebration has determined that I mustn’t contest the meeting polls. And due to this fact, the celebration has introduced one other candidate from Raghopur, in opposition to Tejashwi Yadav. It was a choice we took within the bigger curiosity of the celebration. If I had been to contest, it might have distracted me from the required organisational work,” Mr. Kishor stated.

Requested what he considered his celebration’s prospects within the elections, the 48-year-old chief stated, “I can say with certainty that we are going to both win handsomely or obtain a drubbing. I’ve been stating on document that I count on a tally of both fewer than 10 seats or greater than 150 seats. There isn’t a risk of something in between.”

He made the averment when requested whether or not his celebration want to assist the NDA or the INDIA bloc if the elections threw a hung Meeting, terming a fractured mandate as an impossibility.

He, nonetheless, added, “A tally lower than 150, even whether it is 120 or 130, shall be a defeat for me. If we do properly, we could have the mandate to rework Bihar and make it depend among the many 10 most superior states of the nation. If we don’t do properly sufficient, it might imply the folks haven’t proven sufficient confidence in us, and we should proceed to hold on with our politics of the road and society (samaj aur sadak ki rajneeti).”