India
oi-Gaurav Sharma
Jan Suraaj Party chief Prashant Kishor has announced his party’s five candidates for the forthcoming Bihar Legislative Council (MLC) election which is set to happen shortly.
The party has so far floated names for five of the eight seats up for grabs – four graduates and four teachers’ constituencies whose present members’ terms are due to end in November.
Jan Suraaj Party chief Prashant Kishor announced five candidates for the Bihar Legislative Council elections: Afaq Ahmed (Saran teachers’), Divya Jyoti (Patna teachers’), S P Rai (Darbhanga teachers’), Ravindra Yadav (Darbhanga graduates’), and Rajnish Ranjan (Kosi graduates’).
The five candidates of Jan Suraaj are Afaq Ahmed, Divya Jyoti, S P Rai, Ravindra Yadav and Rajnish Ranjan.
Ahmed has been pitched for the Saran teachers’ constituency from where he is eyeing a second term in the state legislature. Ahmed, who won the seat on the back of Prashant Kishor’s slogan, joined Jan Suraaj itself after Kishor floated his party in the state.
For the Patna teachers’ constituency, Jan Suraaj has put up Divya Jyoti, a lawyer and academician who has just got into politics and joined Jan Suraaj, the very week he decided to enter politics. The seat currently held by JD(U) chief spokesperson Neeraj Kumar is also in the fray.
S P Rai has been nominated for the post of Darbhanga teachers’ constituency member.
As for the graduates’ constituencies, Jan Suraaj has two candidatures in the offing. Ravindra Yadav will contest from the Darbhanga graduates’ constituency while Rajnish Ranjan has been named the party’s candidate from the Kosi graduates’ constituency.
The MLC election, which is separate from the upcoming Bihar Assembly election, is due to be held in eight constituencies spread across 30 districts with voters being mostly post-graduate teachers.
Jan Suraaj had earlier stated its intention to fight from all eight seats as part of its strategy to expand its footprint across the state.
With the five names out in the public domain, the party is yet to formally unveil its candidates for the remaining three seats. The very fact that Jan Suraaj has floated five candidates at once underlines the party’s resolve to make inroads in the state’s Legislative Council by way of graduate and teacher voter bases.
