From 2025 washout to historic win: How Prashant put Jan Suraaj on Bihar's electoral map

Jan Suraj party workers celebrated the victory of Prashant Kishor in Bankipur assembly byelection results (Image/PTI)NEW DELHI: Nearly nine months after Jan Suraaj failed to open its account in the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, party founder Prashant Kishor on Monday secured his first electoral victory. He won the high-profile Bankipur bypoll, giving the fledgling outfit its first-ever seat in the Bihar assembly.Kishor defeated BJP candidate Neeraj Kumar Sinha by 19,324 votes, polling 64,151 votes against Sinha's 44,827, according to the Election Commission.The victory marks Kishor's first electoral success since entering active politics and gives Jan Suraaj its first-ever representation in the Bihar Assembly, offering fresh momentum to a political project that had suffered a crushing set