Bihar Elections 2025: Election strategist turned politician Prashant Kishore (PK) can write a new chapter in Bihar politics. His party Jansuraj has become a cause of concern for both the main Grand Alliance (INDIA) and NDA (NDA) of Bihar state. PK is presenting new hope to the people of Bihar by calling himself the third option, which seems to be making a dent in the vote bank of the traditional claimants to power. Which is a big alarm bell for the Grand Alliance and NDA.
Jan Suraj’s loss model
Jan Suraj’s strategy is challenging the established equations of Bihar politics. In his campaign, PK is raising fundamental issues like education, health, and employment, rising above corruption, migration, and caste politics. Prashant Kishor is continuously attacking both NDA and Grand Alliance on corruption issues. According to him, the 30-year rule of both the alliances has pushed Bihar into misery. This direct criticism is helping to attract clean and educated voters who are disappointed with traditional parties.
Attention to caste equations
Jan Suraj has kept caste equations in mind while selecting candidates, but his focus has been on giving tickets to good candidates irrespective of caste. He has given maximum importance to the Extremely Backward Classes (EBC) and OBCs, which are traditionally considered to be the strong vote bank of any alliance. Apart from this, the party is increasing their concerns by fielding strong candidates in the core vote banks of the grand alliance like Muslims and Yadavs. By making migration a big election issue, PK is trying to attract migrant Bihari voters towards himself.
Youth frustrated due to lack of employment
Frustrated due to not getting employment in Bihar state. He has promised to stop migration in a year, which may reduce the migrant votes for NDA. PK is reminding the public in his speeches. They do not need to do political bonded labor of voting for Lalu (Grand Alliance) out of fear of BJP or Nitish-BJP (NDA) out of fear of Lalu. Jan Suraj is presenting a strong and clean alternative, which is giving voters an opportunity to get out of the politics of fear. According to Prashant Kishor’s claim that his contest is only between NDA and Jan Suraj, he calls the Grand Alliance a fraud.
loss to both alliances
According to the survey, a large number of people believe that Jan Suraj can cause equal harm to both the NDA and the Grand Alliance. However, the big challenge for Jan Suraj is to prove that he is not just a game changer but a winner. According to PK’s claim, his party will either win less than 10 or more than 150 seats, there is no middle path. If he succeeds in establishing himself in the role of kingmaker by winning important seats or preventing big alliances from getting majority, he will definitely be called the new juggernaut of Bihar politics. Prashant Kishor’s clean politics and appeal based on fundamental issues is making inroads among the disappointed voters of Bihar, which is an alarm bell for the Grand Alliance and the NDA.