Prashant Kishor will not contest Bihar Meeting polls, says will work to strengthen his get together

Jan Suraaj Celebration founder Prashant Kishor on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) introduced that he is not going to contest the Bihar meeting pollsA choice, he claimed, was taken by the get together for its better good.

In an unique interview with PTIthe previous political strategist additionally stated {that a} “tally of lower than 150 seats” for Jan Suraaj will likely be thought of a defeat.

“If Jan Suraaj Celebration wins the Bihar polls, it is going to have a nationwide affect. The compass of nationwide politics will level in a unique path,” Mr. Kishor asserted.

The Bihar polls will likely be held in two phases, on November 6 and November 11, and the counting will happen on November 14.

“The get together has determined that I shouldn’t contest the meeting polls. And due to this fact, the get together has introduced one other candidate from Raghopur, towards Tejashwi Yadav. It was a choice we took within the bigger curiosity of the get together. If I had been to contest, it will have distracted me from the mandatory organizational work,” Mr. Kishor stated.

Requested what he considered his get together’s prospects within the elections, the 48-year-old chief stated, “I can say with certainty that we are going to both win handsomely or obtain a drubbing. file that I count on a tally of both fewer than 10 seats or greater than 150 seats. There isn’t a risk of something in between.”

He made the averment when requested whether or not his get together want to assist the NDA or the INDIA bloc if the elections threw a hung Meeting, terming a fractured mandate as an impossibility.

He, nevertheless, added, “A tally lower than 150, even whether it is 120 or 130, shall be a defeat for me. If we do properly, we can have the mandate to remodel Bihar and make it rely among the many 10 most superior states of the nation. If we don’t do properly sufficient, it will imply the folks haven’t proven sufficient confidence in us, and we should proceed to hold on with our politics of the road and society (samaj aur sadak ki rajneeti).”