While the political fire in Bihar has been fuelled amid the seat sharing, the Prashant Kishor-led Jan Suraaj Party is all set to release its second list of candidates for the Bihar assembly elections on Monday. This comes four days after the party declared its first list.
While the Jan Suraaj Party is on the verge of putting out the names of the candidates, all eyes are on the Raghopur seat, in the Vaishali district, where sitting MLA Tejashwi Yadav aims for a hat-trick.
Prashant Kishor, who is a well-known former election strategist, has been dropping hints that he might contest the seat himself, as reported by news agency PTI.
The second list of the Jan Suraaj Party is expected to end the suspense over whether Kishor would make his poll debut from Tejashwi`s home turf, Raghopur.
While the party leaders are tight-lipped about whether the candidature for Raghopur will be declared in the second list or not, speculations have been made that Prashant Kishor might contest from the Raghopur seat against RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.
Sources have said that the party may come out with another list of candidates in a day or two. Jan Suraaj Party on October 9 released its first list of 51 candidates but did not confirm whether its founder, Prashant Kishor, would contest the polls or not.
Prominent names in the first list included former IPS officer of the Bihar cadre, R K Mishra from Darbhanga; prominent lawyer and party`s senior leader Y V Giri from the Manjhi seat; former Patna University and Nalanda Open University Vice Chancellor K C Sinha from Kumhrar; and popular Bhojpuri singer Ritesh Ranjan Pandey from Kargahar.
It may be recalled that Jan Suraaj Party chief Kishor hit the campaign trail from Raghopur on October 11, the home turf of Yadav, whom he vowed to trounce like “Rahul Gandhi`s defeat from Amethi”, reported by PTI.
The 47-year-old politician had received a rousing welcome, with garlands placed around his neck to the tunes of drums beaten by enthusiastic supporters, in the assembly constituency in Vaishali district, about 50 km from the state capital and situated right across the Ganga.
Prashant Kishor, while slamming RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, said that, “Your local MLA is such a big man. He has been a deputy chief minister twice. Have you ever approached him with your problems?” as cited by news agency PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)