Patna, Aug. 16 -- Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday emphasised the need for an "ideology-driven political equation" instead of MY-equation (Muslims-Yadavs) to challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state.

Speaking to reporters, the Jan Suraaj founder proposed a social-political alliance between Hindus who believe in the ideology of Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Babasaheb Ambedkar, and Ram Manohar Lohia, and Muslims to defeat the BJP.

"We only believe in one equation and that is an ideology-based equation... More than half of the Hindus in this country are not with the BJP on the basis of ideology. Jan Suraaj's formula is not MY-formula, Jan Suraaj's formula is that all Hindus...