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Jan Suraaj Party laminitis Prashant Kishor connected Friday (October 24, 2025) announced his enactment for rebel BJP campaigner Anup Kumar Srivastava successful Bihar's Gopalganj, alleging that his ain nominee Shashi Shekhar Sinha withdrew from the contention nether unit from the saffron party.
Mr. Kishor made the announcement astatine a property league successful Gopalganj, making it wide that the lawsuit of Mr. Srivastava was an "exception" to the regularisation followed by his one-year-old party, which did not springiness tickets to disgruntled elements from different parties who joined the Jan Suraaj Party conscionable up of elections.
"Srivastava, who is simply a well-known societal idiosyncratic successful Gopalganj, has besides served arsenic the territory BJP president. He alleges that the enactment overlooked his assertion to tract a idiosyncratic with heavy pockets", Mr. Kishor said.
"So, successful this constituency, some helium and Jan Suraaj Party are victims of BJP's injustice. Sinha withdrew from the contest, citing aged property and sick health. He seems to person realised aft campaigning for a fewer days that astatine 76 years, helium did not person the vigor to contention an election. I person learnt from credible sources that helium withdrew nether unit from the BJP", Kishor alleged.
Notably, the Jan Suraaj Party had precocious submitted a practice earlier the Election Commission, accusing the BJP of putting unit connected its candidates to retreat from elections.
Mr. Kishor has besides been displaying photographs of the party's Danapur campaigner Mutru Sah with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Brahmapur nominee Satya Prakash Tiwari with BJP's in-charge for the ongoing elections, Dharmendra Pradhan, to allege that apical enactment was progressive successful the poaching of his candidates.
Mr. Kishor acknowledged that with the information process over, “we cannot allot the Jan Suraaj Party awesome to Srivastava. But, henceforth, helium shall beryllium portion of the Jan Suraaj family, and our afloat enactment volition beryllium to him, contempt his being an Independent candidate. We privation to springiness the BJP a sensation of its ain medicine."
