Patna. Prashant Kishore alias PK’s Jan Suraj, who came into politics from election strategist, has released the second list of candidates for Bihar Assembly elections. The second list of Prashant Kishor’s party Jan Suraj has names of 66 candidates. Earlier, Jan Suraj had released the first list of 51 candidates on 9 October. There are 46 general category candidates in the second list of Jan Suraj. Whereas, there are 19 candidates from reserved, 14 extremely backward and 10 from low income group. The special thing is that Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj has fielded Kamlesh Paswan of Scheduled Caste from the general category Harnaut seat.
Second list of candidates of Jan Suraj Party for Bihar Assembly elections!! pic.twitter.com/SuyRGATirS
— Jan Suraaj (@jansuraajonline) October 13, 2025
Till now, Prashant Kishor has been making election strategies for parties like BJP, TMC, Congress and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena-UBT, but by contesting in the Bihar Assembly elections, he has heated up the atmosphere. Along with JDU President and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, RJD supremo Lalu Yadav, his son Tejashwi Yadav and BJP are also on the target of Prashant Kishor. However, in an interview recently, Prashant Kishore had described Lalu’s elder son Tej Pratap Yadav as having a clean heart. However, Prashant Kishore has now also spoken about the Bhagalpur riots in Bihar. Jan Suraj founder Prashant Kishore has termed the Bhagalpur riots as the most destructive in social and political life.
Regarding Abhaykant Jha, who fought a free case for the victims of the Muslim community in the Bhagalpur riots, Prashant Kishore says that Vishwa Hindu Parishad told him that being a Brahmin, why were you fighting their case, yet Jha ji helped the people.
Do you know who did and got the Bhagalpur riots done? pic.twitter.com/YPKVV480AE— Let us change bihar (@SulabhJha4) October 13, 2025
Taking the name of his candidate Abhay Kant Jha, Prashant Kishore said that he fought the case of the victims of Bhagalpur riots almost free of cost. Prashant Kishore said that Abhay Kant Jha saved 850 families of the victims of Bhagalpur riots, provided them compensation and also rehabilitated them. Arrangements were made for the people fleeing Meerut to stay in Bhagalpur. Prashant Kishore said that unlike big parties and leaders, Abhay Kant Jha did not enter politics. He said that today Abhay Kant Jha has come to Jan Suraj for change in Bihar. Bhagalpur riots took place in 1989.