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Bhojpuri prima Ritesh Pandey connected Monday (January 12, 2026) discontinue the Jan Suraaj Party, hardly 2 months aft making an unsuccessful electoral debut from the location turf of the fledgling outfit's laminitis Prashant Kishor.
The announcement was made by Mr. Pandey connected societal media, citing his inability to transportation connected with his "work", which earned him "so overmuch emotion and affection" from the people, contempt being "born successful a household of humble farmers".
Mr. Pandey had fought the Bihar Assembly polls from Kargahar, which had been identified arsenic Mr. Kishor arsenic 1 of the 2 seats, the different being RJD person Tejashwi Yadav's pouch borough Raghopur, from wherever helium would person liked to contention himself.
However, the 47-year-old erstwhile governmental strategist chose not to contention the polls, claiming that his enactment wanted him to absorption connected organisation and campaign.
Mr. Pandey had joined the Jan Suraaj Party successful July 2025. He finished 4th successful the spot and ended up forfeiting his deposit.
In his station connected X, however, Mr. Pandey made it wide that helium felt nary pangs of regret astir his governmental vocation not taking disconnected and that helium was giving up the rank of the enactment since it was "not imaginable to transportation connected with my enactment portion remaining a subordinate of immoderate governmental outfit".
The enactment appeared to beryllium heading for different setback with its elder person RCP Singh singing pagans to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Both Mr. Singh and Mr. Kumar had turned up astatine a relation successful Patna connected Sunday, organised by the Patel (Kurmi) assemblage to which they belong, and though they did not speech words, the bureaucrat-turned-politician fuelled speculations portion replying to queries from journalists.
"Who told you we are separate? We person known each different for 25 years. Nobody knows him [Mr. Kumar] amended than I do, and helium knows maine amended than anybody else," said Mr. Singh, who formerly headed the CM's JD(U).
To a pointed query connected whether helium could beryllium backmost successful the enactment that helium discontinue successful 2022 pursuing accusations that helium was trying to technologist a divided successful the JD(U) astatine BJP's behest, Singh replied cryptically, "You volition get to cognize everything successful owed course."
The erstwhile Union Minister had joined the BJP aft quitting the JD(U) and floated his ain outfit, 'Aap Sabki Aawaz', aft Mr. Kumar's instrumentality to NDA.
'Aap Sabki Aawaz' was merged with the Jan Suraaj Party successful May past year, and Mr. Singh's girl Lata was fixed the summons from Asthawan successful Nalanda, wherever she finished 3rd and mislaid her deposit.
