Election strategist Prashant Kishor will launch his political party – Jan Suraj – on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Announcing this, the Jan Suraj convenor recently said that he is considering setting up a panel of 21 leaders to handle party affairs. Kishor has already announced that his party will contest all 243 seats in Bihar in the 2025 assembly election. In January this year, the noted strategist said that at least 75 people from the Extremely Backward Class (EBC) category will be fielded by a platform backed by his organisation 'Jan Suraj' in the 2025 Bihar assembly election.
Kishor claimed that people from the EBC community have always been exploited by the ruling parties in the state. “In the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, for the first time you will see at least 75 people from the EBC category contesting from one platform,” he said while speaking at an event in Patna. On October 2, 2022, Kishor began a 3,500-km padyatra in Bihar from West Champaran district as part of his 'Jan Suraj' campaign. During his public meetings, he appealed to people in Bihar to stop voting on caste and religious lines and vote for the party that can bring change in the state.
Kishor announced at a gathering in Kishanganj that the Jan Suraj Party will field 75 Muslims in the 2025 assembly elections. He also claimed that the RJD and the JD(U) – two regional parties that ruled the state for decades – did not give important positions to Muslims in their governments. He reportedly pointed out that Muslims are 17% of the state's population – 3% more than Yadavs – but they have no pan-Bihar leader.
Kishor urged Muslims and Dalits – who collectively constitute 37% of Bihar's population – to come together. He said the Dalit vote is currently scattered because there are individual leaders like Chirag Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi. “The three Dalit CMs in the state's history – Bhola Paswan Shastri, Ramsunder Das and Manjhi – were more of placeholders rather than power figures,” he said. Chirag Paswan and Jitan Ram Manjhi are currently part of the NDA.
