Overview
- Uday Singh, Jan Suraaj’s national president, said Wednesday that the party will contest the Bankipur assembly bypoll and that party workers want founder Prashant Kishor to stand.
- Prashant Kishor has launched an intensified door-to-door outreach plan in Bankipur and told reporters the party will mount an aggressive local campaign over the next month.
- The final decision on whether Kishor will be the official JSP candidate has not been taken and party leaders say the call will be made soon.
- Bankipur is a long-standing BJP stronghold vacated after Nitin Nabin was elected to the Rajya Sabha, where Nabin had won the assembly seat by more than 51,000 votes in 2025.
- The bypoll is being watched as a test of local political realignment after recent leadership moves in Bihar and as a tactical opportunity for Jan Suraaj to recover from its poor 2025 performance.