Will Prashant Kishor fight from Tejashwi Yadav’s constituency? Here’s what Chef Jan Suraaj said

Prashant Kishor, the leader of Bihar’s youngest political outfit, minced no words while attacking his rival Tejashwi Yadav, the party’s chief ministerial candidate. Mahagathbandhan (the alliance of the largest opposition parties in the state).

However, the big question remains whether Kishor, 47, will take the fight to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader in his stronghold in the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar.

Over the weekend, Kishor’s election campaign reached Raghopur, the constituency that Tejashwi Yadav, 35, now represents for two consecutive terms of five years each, in Vaishali district of Bihar, amid reports that the RJD leader may contest at least two seats this time.

“”…if I have to contest from Raghopur, the people of Raghopur will have to be with me. And everything I saw and understood today, I will present tomorrow at the party meeting. In a day or two we will know who is in the running,” Kishor told news agencies on Saturday.

Here are the elected representatives from Raghopur assembly constituency since 1998:

Election year	Represented by…	Party
1995	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal
1998	Rajgir Choudhary	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2000	Lalu Prasad Yadav
2000	Rabri Devi
2005
2005
2010	Satish Kumar Yadav	Janata Dal (United States)
2015	Tejashwi Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020

“Let him (Tejashwi Yadav) contest for two seats. His fate in Raghopur will be the same as that of Rahul Gandhi in 2019, when the Congress leader fought for two seats but ended up losing his stronghold of Amethi,” Kishor told the media recently.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party (part of the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar) lost in the family stronghold of Amethi. However, he had contested for one more seat, Wayanad in Kerala, which he won, thus securing his place in Parliament.

Gandhi had to opt for a similar strategy in 2024 too, choosing Rae Bareli and Wayanad. He won both parliamentary seats and vacated the Wayanad seat later.

Kishor’s contention is that Yadav will meet a similar fate. However, he has not committed to being the primary challenger.

The suspense over Prashant Kishor’s constituency is likely to end today as the Jan Suraaj Party is set to release its second list of candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections at a press conference at 11:30 am today.

Watch this space for the latest news and updates from one of the high-stakes elections scheduled for this year.

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