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A time aft the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) announced the seat-sharing program among its allies for the upcoming Bihar Assembly election, the Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), founded by erstwhile canvass strategist Prashant Kishor, connected Monday (October 13, 2025) declared a 2nd database of 65 enactment candidates.
Earlier, connected October 9, the JSP had released its archetypal database of 51 candidates, though Mr. Kishor was not contiguous astatine that event.
“The full fig of JSP candidates [for the Assembly election] has present gone up to 116. Out of them, 25 candidates are [standing for] reserved seats. Of the remaining 91 seats, one-third (31 seats) person gone to EBC (Extremely Backward Classes) candidates; 21 candidates are OBCs (Other Backward Classes); 21 candidates beryllium to number communities; and the remaining 14 candidates are successful the ‘others’ category,” Mr. Kishor said, addressing media persons successful Patna.
“Jiski jitni sankhya, usko utna representation hum log denge (depending connected the numbers successful the population, we are giving proportionate spot representation), arsenic we person been saying for a agelong time,” Mr. Kishor said.
“No governmental enactment has fixed this overmuch practice to EBCs yet successful their list,” Mr. Kishor said, aft releasing the 2nd list. The JSP’s nationalist president Uday Singh; Bihar president Manoj Bharti; and different enactment leaders were contiguous astatine the event.
Popular EBC person Ramchandra Sahani, who hails from Sugauli of East Champaran district, joined the enactment connected the occasion. The JSP’s database for different seats would besides beryllium released soon, enactment leaders said.
The JSP’s archetypal database of 51 candidates included eminent lawyers, doctors, bureaucrats, and academics. It stated that 17 of the party’s candidates were from the EBC segment, which comprises implicit 36% of State’s population, according to the 2022 Bihar Caste-Based Survey report. The archetypal database besides had 11 OBC candidates, 7 each from the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and number communities, portion the remaining 9 candidates were from the General Category.
“It’s for the enactment to instrumentality the last call,” Mr. Kishor had said astir his ain candidature. He aboriginal kicked-off the JSP’s run way from Raghopur successful Vaishali district, a spot that the incumbent MLA, Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), has held for 2 consecutive terms, 2015 and 2020.
“It’s up to enactment to decided but I would emotion to contention against Tejashwi Yadav from Raghopur,” Mr. Kishor had said earlier.
While Mr. Yadav, who is besides the Leader of the Opposition successful the Bihar Assembly, has not yet declared wherever helium volition beryllium contesting from, sources successful the RJD said it would successful each likelihood beryllium Raghopur.
The Raghopur Assembly constituency, astir 35 km from Patna, has been a Yadav-dominated RJD stronghold for respective years. The constituency besides has a sizeable upper-caste Rajput population. RJD main Lalu Prasad and his woman and erstwhile Chief Minister Rabri Devi person besides represented Raghopur successful the past.
The Bihar Assembly has a full of 243 members. The forthcoming predetermination volition beryllium conducted successful 2 phases, connected November 6 and November 11. The results volition beryllium announced connected November 14.
