Jan Suraaj Party broadcasts second listing of 65 candidates

A day after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) introduced the seat-sharing plan amongst its allies for the upcoming Bihar Assembly election, the Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), based by former ballot strategist Prashant Kishor, on Monday (October 13, 2025) declared a second listing of 65 occasion candidates.

Earlier, on October 9, the JSP had launched its first listing of 51 candidates, though Mr. Kishor was not current at that occasion.

“The complete variety of JSP candidates [for the Assembly election] has now gone as much as 116. Out of them, 25 candidates are [standing for] reserved seats. Of the remaining 91 seats, one-third (31 seats) have gone to EBC (Extremely Backward Classes) candidates; 21 candidates are OBCs (Other Backward Classes); 21 candidates belong to minority communities; and the remaining 14 candidates are within the ‘others’ class,” Mr. Kishor mentioned, addressing media individuals in Patna.

“Jiski jitni sankhya, usko utna illustration hum log denge (relying on the numbers within the inhabitants, we’re giving proportionate seat illustration), as now we have been saying for a very long time,” Mr. Kishor mentioned.

“No political occasion has given this a lot illustration to EBCs but of their listing,” Mr. Kishor mentioned, after releasing the second listing. The JSP’s nationwide president Uday Singh; Bihar president Manoj Bharti; and different occasion leaders had been current on the occasion.

Popular EBC chief Ramchandra Sahani, who hails from Sugauli of East Champaran district, joined the occasion on the event. The JSP’s listing for different seats would even be launched quickly, occasion leaders mentioned.

The JSP’s first listing of 51 candidates included eminent attorneys, medical doctors, bureaucrats, and teachers. It acknowledged that 17 of the occasion’s candidates had been from the EBC phase, which includes over 36% of State’s inhabitants, in response to the 2022 Bihar Caste-Based Survey report. The first listing additionally had 11 OBC candidates, seven every from the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and minority communities, whereas the remaining 9 candidates had been from the General Category.

“It’s for the occasion to take the ultimate name,” Mr. Kishor had mentioned about his personal candidature. He later kicked-off the JSP’s marketing campaign path from Raghopur in Vaishali district, a seat that the incumbent MLA, Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), has held for 2 consecutive phrases, 2015 and 2020.

“It’s as much as occasion to determined however I might like to contest towards Tejashwi Yadav from Raghopur,” Mr. Kishor had mentioned earlier.

While Mr. Yadav, who can be the Leader of the Opposition within the Bihar Assembly, has not but declared the place he can be contesting from, sources within the RJD mentioned it could in all probability be Raghopur.

The Raghopur Assembly constituency, about 35 km from Patna, has been a Yadav-dominated RJD stronghold for a number of years. The constituency additionally has a sizeable upper-caste Rajput inhabitants. RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his spouse and former Chief Minister Rabri Devi have additionally represented Raghopur prior to now.

The Bihar Assembly has a complete of 243 members. The forthcoming election can be carried out in two phases, on November 6 and November 11. The outcomes can be introduced on November 14.