Poll Strategist Prashant Kishore To Launch New Political Party In Bihar (image-twitter/PrashantKishor)

Jan Suraaj founder and former poll strategist Prashant Kishore announced on Monday that his Jan Suraaj campaign would become a political party on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, October 2.

Prashanth Kishore said that the new party will contest the Bihar Assembly polls scheduled for next year. In his post on X, he wrote, “After more than two-years of Padyatra through thousands of villages and small towns of Bihar, we formally started the process of party formation to give a better alternative that would end decades of misery and ensure a better future for the children of #Bihar”.

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Being active in Bihar, Prashant Kishore has been planning to hold eight separate state-level meetings of more than 1.5 lakh officials linked to the campaign.

He in his post said that the process began with the first of the eight office bearers before the official launch.

“Over the next two months 1.5 lakh Jan Suraaj office bearers together with lacs of participating “Sansthapak Sadasyas” of #JanSuraaj will deliberate, and decide on the key priorities of the party; draft and finalize a party constitution, and finally ELECT the leader(s) of the party,” he further added.

After more than two-years of Padyatra through thousands of villages and small towns of Bihar, we formally started the process of party formation to give a better alternative that would end decades of misery and ensure a better future for the children of #Bihar

Yesterday, the… pic.twitter.com/UREEPLyBtH

— Prashant Kishor (@PrashantKishor) July 29, 2024

However, the former political analyst clarified that he would not bear any post in the party and would continue with his grassroots outreach.

“And it all began with the prayer chosen by the people here in an online survey,” he concluded.

Prashant Kishore announced the launch of the new party on Sunday during a state-level workshop of Jan Suraaj in Patna. The workshop was attended by several persons including a granddaughter of the former chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, who joined the two-year-old campaign.

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Several political leaders have joined the party including former RJD MLC Rambali Singh Chandravanshi, who was recently disqualified from the legislative council on grounds of indiscipline, and Anand Mishra, a former IPS officer who resigned from service hoping for a BJP ticket but contested the Lok Sabha polls from Buxar as an Independent after being denied the ticket.