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After the Bihar Assembly elections debacle successful November 2025 for the newly-formed Jan Suraaj Party, founded by erstwhile poll-strategist-turned –politician Prashant Kishor, the party’s nonrecreational helping named has retrenched implicit 1,000 unit members.
Jan Suraaj Professional Team Consultancy Private Limited which is besides known arsenic JSPT was formed five-six months up of the polls. Around 1,300 unit members were laid disconnected successful the months of November and December aft the canvass results were announced, according to enactment insiders.
In the past Assembly elections successful Bihar implicit 99% of the JSP candidates had mislaid their information deposits and the enactment had failed to triumph adjacent azygous spot 0f 238 contested retired of full 243-member State assembly with ballot percent of 3.34%.
It got full 16.77 lakh votes, polled little than NOTA (None of the Above) votes connected 61 seats.
The JSPT is said to beryllium the consultancy limb of the Jan Suraaj, a grassroots governmental inaugural led by erstwhile strategist Prashant Kishor focusing connected predetermination management, argumentation and grassroots mobilization for a caller imaginativeness of governance.
“A batch of radical were hired by our nonrecreational squad to enactment successful each 243 constituencies and they were hired lone for the predetermination purpose. Once the predetermination is over, they excessively were laid off,” Jan Suraaj Party media in-charge Obaidur Rahman told The Hindu implicit phone.
The enactment laminitis and person Prashant Kishor, though, did not respond (till the filing of the report) the connection sent by the newspaper.
A elder subordinate of the Jan Suraaj Party, connected the information of anonymity, said “he was unaware of it”. “The JS (Jan Suraaj) arsenic a governmental enactment has thing to with each these layoffs”, added Mr. Rahman.
Mr. Kishor founded Jan Suraaj Party connected October 2024 astatine Pana’s veterinary assemblage crushed amid clarion telephone to contention the upcoming Assembly elections successful November 2025 arsenic a 3rd governmental alternate and to decision mainstream governmental parties.
“Ahead of the Assembly elections, the enactment had formed a consultancy steadfast recruiting radical lone for the predetermination purpose. They were sent to each and each 243 assembly constituencies for enactment of the enactment candidates but erstwhile the canvass is over, they excessively were asked to go”, Mr. Rahman explained.
“Some of america got the salary, but immoderate of america are yet to get it for the period of December 2025”, 1 of the laid disconnected unit said, preferring anonymity.
He denied that they were told to beryllium appointed lone till the Assembly elections which was conscionable for 5 months’ ahead.
Several of america had travel to articulation Jan Suraaj aft leaving immoderate large companies. How tin 1 articulation a institution to enactment lone for fewer months leaving the comfortableness of large companies?” helium questioned.
The staffs were said to beryllium asked via video conferencing and verbal announcement to enactment successful their papers with assurances that their afloat and last colony of wages would beryllium done later, helium added. “But, we consciousness abandoned now. And our stint present has made our CV to springiness a precise mediocre impression”, the laid disconnected unit added.
