India, Aug. 3 -- Bihar's Bankipur assembly constituency has emerged as a key battleground to see whether the people there stand with the Bharatiya Janata Party or are ready for a change. Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor has taken his first political gamble by choosing to fight from Bankipur, which has been a BJP bastion for long, and the Rashtriya Janata Dal has also thrown in its hat in hopes that the tide in Bihar may have turned after last year's assembly elections.

The byelection in Bankipur, which would otherwise not attract much attention, was necessitated after BJP's Nitin Nabin vacated the seat for joining the Rajya Sabha. He represented Bankipur in Bihar assembly undefeated for around two decades before moving to the Par...