“The farther one goes away from Bihar, more interesting Prashant Kishor appears” – this was how CPI (ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya recently described Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor a.k.a. PK.

Kishor, 48, may not emerge as a major player in the Bihar Assembly elections, but no one could deny the buzz that the Jan Suraaj generated in its electoral debut.

The poll strategist-turned-politician Kishor, who sought to move beyond caste politics, made jobs, migration, education and health care the central plank of his party, setting a narrative over these issues in his intense campaign for the Bihar polls.

The Jan Suraaj however did not seem to create much resonance among the state’s voters, mainly due to two reasons. One, the party was founded by Kishor only on Oct

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