Bihar Assembly Election 2025 | Jan Suraaj party releases list of 51 candidates, doubts remain on Prashant Kishor's contest

Kishor to launch election campaign from Raghopur, Assembly constituency RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, on October 11.

Patna: Poll strategist-turned-politician and Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Thursday released the list of 51 candidates who will contest the Bihar Assembly elections as his party's nominees.

But doubts remain as to whether, PK, as Kishor is fondly known, will contest from any of the constituencies.

Jan Suraaj national president and former MP Uday Singh released the names of 51 candidates. This includes Pritti Kinnar from the third gender community, who will contest from the Bhorey seat in Gopalganj. Presently, Sunil Kumar, IPS officer-turned-JD(U) leader, is the legislator from Bhorey. He is also the Education Minister in Nitish Kumar’s Cabinet.

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“Kishor will launch his election campaign from Raghopur, the Assembly constituency of Opposition leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, on October 11,” said former Union Minister RCP Singh, who has joined Jan Suraaj after being thrown out of the JD(U) by its national president Nitish Kumar.

“In the next three days, the names of the remaining candidates will also be released,” said RCP Singh, who, like Kishore, was once a close aide of Nitish Kumar and held the post of JD(U) national president besides being Union Steel Minister in the Narendra Modi government.