India, May 24 -- Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) may have drawn a blank in the seat tally in the Bihar assembly elections last year - with a notable 3.4% total vote share across all seats nonetheless - but he is now hoping to make a big splash in a bypoll to the Bankipur seat. The seat has been vacated by the BJP's Nitin Nabin, who got elected to the Rajya Sabha as he moved to Delhi to become the national president of the party.

Claiming that the Bankipur assembly bypoll would be a "referendum on the first year of the ruling NDA" after its big win in 2025, Kishor told reporters in Patna, "The Jan Suraaj Party has decided, in principle, to contest the bypoll to the Bankipur seat. It will be held by the time the NDA (BJP, JD(U) an...