The poor showing by newbie political outfit Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), led by Prashant Kishor, was one of the major outcomes of the Bihar Assembly elections, with the party failing to register a single victory.

Launched with great hype and on the back of a three-year mass contact programme, the JSP was considered one of the big unknowables of the election. Who the party would hurt, and to what degree, was a matter of speculation throughout the elections. Mr. Kishor’s aggressive press conferences and allegations against senior leaders of both the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) were a talking point.

The JSP fielded 234 candidates for the 243-member Bihar Assembly, but according to sources, the decision by Mr. Kishor to not contest the polls

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