Abhishek Kumar Sinha has even thanked the party leadership for reposing faith in him and reiterated his commitment to continue working for the party despite withdrawing from the contest.
Jan Suraaj party's Bihar president Manoj Bharti announced Kishor's candidature following a meeting of the party's core committee.
Political circles are abuzz with speculation that political strategist Prashant Kishor is set to make his electoral debut by contesting the upcoming Bankipur Assembly by-election, taking on the BJP in one of its strongest bastions.
Prashant Kishor accused Nitish Kumar of political missteps and announced a door-to-door Jan Suraaj campaign to challenge the BJP in Bankipur.
Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor claimed that the Chief Ministerial face in Bihar would ultimately be chosen by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, suggesting that incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is being sidelined due to health concerns.
While thousands gathered in Patna for the Bihar oath ceremony, Prashant Kishor quietly sat in a day-long silent fast at Gandhi’s Champaran ashram.
Jan Suraaj leader Prashant Kishor’s long-awaited leap from political strategist to political contender was always going to be a high-stakes experiment. For years he had been the backroom architect of some of India’s most formidable electoral campaigns.
Acknowledging that the party failed to bring about the systemic change it had promised, he announced that party leaders would observe a day-long ‘maun-vrat’ (silent fast) on Thursday at the Bhitiharwa Gandhi Ashram as an act of penance.
Despite contesting almost every constituency, Jan Suraaj could not register a single win. Meanwhile, the NDA swept the polls, securing 202 seats, crossing the 200-seat mark for only the second time, the first being in 2010 when it won 206 seats.
Jan Suraaj said it was disappointed with its performance in the Bihar election and failed to galvanise votes in its favour. It further said the voters did not resonate with its election campaign that focused on key issues like unemployment, migration, and the lack of industries in Bihar.
