Prashant Kishor walked into the 2025 Bihar Assembly election with one of the biggest reputations in Indian politics. The man who helped Narendra Modi script the 2014 wave, who stitched the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in 2015, and who advised winners from Bengal to Tamil Nadu finally entered the arena with his own outfit, Jan Suraaj.
But as counting for the Bihar Assembly Election 2025 progresses, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: Jan Suraaj has not even managed to secure a lead in any constituency, let alone threaten the bigger players.
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Despite PK’s massive padyatra, months-long groundwork, and a carefully crafted narrative around “good governance”, the party is missing from the election trend

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