With Promise to End Liquor Ban, Prashant Kishor Launches New Party on Gandhi Jayanti

Patna: Former poll strategist Prashant Kishor formally jumped into the political arena in Bihar on Wednesday by launching his Jan Suraj Party. His party has decided to contest in all seats of Bihar in the next assembly election.

One of the major promises of this newly formed party is to lift the ban on liquor imposed in Bihar by the Nitish Kumar government.

Kishor wants to shift the paradigm for voting in Bihar from caste and electoral sops to a vision for the future. According to him, the head of the party will be decided by the people who worked for the Jan Suraj group over the last two years.

“In Bihar, in the last 25 to 30 years, people have been voting for RJD or BJP. That compulsion should end. The alternate should not belong to any dynastic party, but people who wish to form the party,” he had said in the past.

Mr Kishor had started the Jan Suraj initiative after a brief stint in the ruling Janata Dal United of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the Congress’s aborted effort to recruit him to revitalise the party.

Mr Kishor has said he aims to visit every village in Bihar to encourage people not to vote under pressure from misguided leaders and opt for progress of the state on key parameters including education, agriculture, and employment.

The next stage of Prashant Kishor’s political initiative would be to come up with a blueprint of solutions for the challenges Bihar is facing.