Prashant Kishore had come to change the politics of Bihar, now he is being criticized for the selection of candidates for the by-election, know the reason

Assembly by-elections are being held in Bihar on November 13. Jan Suraj Party (JSP), founded by political strategist Prashant Kishore, has also fielded its candidates on all four seats. However, now Prashant Kishore has come under criticism. In fact, Prashant Kishore, who promised to give tickets to candidates with clean image, has criminal cases pending against three of the four candidates fielded in the by-election. By-elections on these seats became necessary after the MLAs were elected to the Lok Sabha on Tarari, Ramgarh, Belagnj and Imamganj assembly seats in the recent elections. According to the election affidavit of JSP’s Belagnj candidate 55-year-old Mohammad Amjad, five pending FIRs are registered against him between 1995 and 2022. In one case, he is accused of attempted murder, disturbing public peace and criminal intimidation. Amjad, who has completed his education till Class 10, had unsuccessfully contested the 2005 and 2010 assembly elections. In 2010, he lost in Belagnj on a JD(U) ticket by over 4,500 votes. The Belagnj seat fell vacant after Surendra Prasad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was elected to the Lok Sabha from Jehanabad. JSP’s Imamganj candidate Jitendra Paswan, 47, has two pending cases against him between 2022 and 2023. In one case, he is accused of cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property. Paswan, who has studied till Class 12, will take on Hindustan Awami Morcha (Secular)’s Deepa Manjhi, daughter-in-law of party founder Jitan Ram Manjhi, who vacated the Imamganj seat after winning the Lok Sabha election from Gaya and has since become a Union minister. In Ramgarh, JSP’s Sushil Kumar Singh has declared a pending case from 2019 in his election affidavit. He is accused of attempt to murder and disturbing public peace. The seat fell vacant after RJD’s Sudhakar Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha as Buxar MP. The RJD has fielded Ajit Singh, son of party state president Jagadanand Singh and brother of Sudhakar, while the BJP has fielded Ashok Singh in the Ramgarh bypoll. While a JSP leader argued that the cases faced by the party’s candidates could be politically motivated, he said the law only bars convicted people from contesting elections.