India, May 25 -- For a man who made a career out of engineering other people's electoral victories, Prashant Kishor has been conspicuously absent from a poll result sheet, as a winner or loser. With a bypoll in Bihar set to take place anytime now, that may be about to change, though PK is keeping people guessing so far.

The poll strategist who became the founder of the Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) said on Saturday that his party has decided "in principle" to contest the upcoming bypoll to the Bankipur assembly seat in Patna, vacated by BJP's Nitin Nabin after he was elected to the Rajya Sabha and elevated to the post of the party's national president in January.

Pointedly asked whether he would be the candidate himself, Kishor offered a line ...