Bihar: Big blow to Prashant Kishor’s party, two former MPs resign from Jan Suraj’s core committee

In a major setback to Prashant Kishor ahead of next year’s assembly elections in Bihar, former MPs Devendra Prasad Yadav and Munajir Hasan have resigned from the 125-member core committee of Jan Suraj. According to the information, both the leaders have expressed concern over Kishor’s style of functioning. However, they clarified that they have stepped down from the core committee but have not left the party yet. On October 2, political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor announced the formation of his political party Jan Suraj Party. It is a much-awaited move, through which he is hoping to take Bihar politics by storm. Kishor has appointed Madhubani-born former Indian Foreign Service officer Manoj Bharti as the party’s working president. He said Bharti will hold the post till March next year, when organisational elections will be held. Kishor officially launched his political party two years after completing a 3,000-km-long padayatra in Bihar. The yatra, which began from Champaran, where Mahatma Gandhi had launched the country’s first satyagraha, was part of an effort to organise citizens for a “new political alternative” to address the state’s long-term challenges of underdevelopment. Kishor announced that the party’s symbol will feature images of Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar, symbolising its ideological foundation.