Bihar Assembly polls: Prashant Kishor backs insurgent BJP candidate in Gopalganj

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Friday (October 24, 2025) introduced his assist for insurgent BJP candidate Anup Kumar Srivastava in Bihar’s Gopalganj, alleging that his personal nominee Shashi Shekhar Sinha withdrew from the competition beneath stress from the saffron celebration.

Mr. Kishor made the announcement at a press convention in Gopalganj, making it clear that the case of Mr. Srivastava was an “exception” to the rule adopted by his one-year-old celebration, which didn’t give tickets to disgruntled components from different events who joined the Jan Suraaj Party simply forward of elections.

“Srivastava, who is a well-known social worker in Gopalganj, has also served as the district BJP president. He alleges that the party overlooked his claim to field a person with deep pockets”, Mr. Kishor stated.

“So, in this constituency, both he and Jan Suraaj Party are victims of BJP’s injustice. Sinha withdrew from the contest, citing old age and ill health. He seems to have realised after campaigning for a few days that at 76 years, he did not have the energy to contest an election. I have learnt from credible sources that he withdrew under pressure from the BJP”, Kishor alleged.

Notably, the Jan Suraaj Party had not too long ago submitted a illustration earlier than the Election Commission, accusing the BJP of placing stress on its candidates to withdraw from elections.

Mr. Kishor has additionally been displaying images of the celebration’s Danapur candidate Mutru Sah with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Brahmapur nominee Satya Prakash Tiwari with BJP’s in-charge for the continued elections, Dharmendra Pradhan, to allege that high management was concerned within the poaching of his candidates.

Mr. Kishor acknowledged that with the nomination course of over, “we can not allot the Jan Suraaj Party image to Srivastava. But, henceforth, he shall be a part of the Jan Suraaj household, and our full assist will probably be to him, regardless of his being an Independent candidate. We need to give the BJP a style of its personal medication.”