New Delhi: Ballot strategist Prashant Kishor, who has been on a padyatra throughout his residence state Bihar for over a yr now, has stated he’ll assist unbiased candidates aligned with the imaginative and prescient of his ongoing Jan Suraaj marketing campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The Jan Suraaj yatra, which started on 22 October final yr, will culminate right into a political social gathering as soon as it covers the whole state, Kishor advised the media in Darbhanga Thursday.
For now, nonetheless, the thought is to deal with the “demand” from a piece of the yatra management to again unbiased candidates within the upcoming common elections, he added.
The announcement comes days after Kishor’s assembly with the Telugu Desam Occasion (TDP) management in Vijayawada Saturday. TDP sources have advised ThePrint that Kishor will likely be enjoying the “role of a mentor” for Showtime Consulting — that has been dealing with the TDP’s marketing campaign thus far — within the run-up to the Andhra Pradesh meeting elections, additionally to be held subsequent yr.
“If they (Jan Suraaj local leadership) decide and have a candidate who believes in the ideology of Jan Suraaj… then har haalat mein, poori majbooti se (in any condition, with all the strength), we will make him fight as an independent,” Kishor stated on the press convention Thursday.
He stated it was not doable to combat an election underneath the Jan Suraaj (individuals’s good governance) banner because it was not a political social gathering but.
“The day I started the yatra, I had said a party would only be formed after we cover most of Bihar. We have completed only half as of now,” he added.
Kishor’s padyatra has now reached Bihar’s Darbhanga.
The political strategist added the Jan Suraaj household and its assets could be used to assist unbiased candidates who assist the marketing campaign’s thought, stressing that they needed to be a “capable” candidate.
‘Making a new system’
Over the past 15 months, Kishor’s yatra has lined over 3,000 kilometres throughout 12 districts in Bihar. These districts embody West Champaran, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran, Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Sheohar, Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Samastipur and Darbhanga.
Jan Suraaj already boasts of an electoral success in Afaq Ahmad, who received by a margin of 674 votes from the Saran academics’ constituency as an Impartial candidate in April’s Bihar Legislative Council by-polls.
Referring to Ahmad’s victory, Kishor stated, “After we covered the first five districts, an MLC by-election came up. Since we talk so much about education, people said we should fight the MLC election of teachers. People of those five districts got together and decided on a candidate among themselves. He fought as an independent and won.”
Kishor additionally dominated out any alliance in Bihar after his social gathering was shaped. “Jan Suraaj is about making a new system altogether,” he stated, including his evaluation thus far was that both they’d get zero seats or greater than what one might rely.
Bihar has Meeting polls scheduled in 2025 and other people related to the yatra imagine its influence could be seen in these elections.
(Edited by Tikli Basu)
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