NDA’s win in Bihar Assembly bypolls a matter of concern: Prashant Kishor

“RJD is simply a 30-year-old party. The lad of its authorities president finished third. Can Jan Suraaj beryllium faulted for that? In Belaganj each Muslim votes went to the JD(U) candidate. In Imamganj, the Jan Suraaj chopped into NDA votes. Else, the triumph borderline of (Union minister) Jitan Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha would person been bigger”, asserted Kishor.

Notably, Imamganj, a reserved seat, was retained by Manjhi’s daughter-in-law Deepa, who defeated the RJD campaigner by a bladed borderline of little than 6,000 votes. Jan Suraaj campaigner Jitendra Paswan finished third, polling much than 37,000 votes.

When pointed retired that successful 3 of the 4 seats, candidates of Jan Suraaj had polled little than one-sixth of the full votes and ran the hazard of losing their deposits, Kishor changeable backmost “That should not beryllium a substance of interest (chinta ki baat). If determination is simply a substance of concern, it is the quality of the NDA to marque a cleanable expanse contempt having ruled Bihar for truthful agelong and “failed” to extremity the state’s backwardness”.

The IPAC founder, who had a little stint successful the JD(U), insisted that the party’s supremo Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, was a “spent force” and its candidate, erstwhile MLC Manorama Devi, had won connected her ain steam.

“We person ever said that our combat is with NDA, not with RJD contempt its assertion of being the largest enactment successful Bihar…..(but) Nitish Kumar is nary factor. His enactment polled conscionable astir 11 per cent of full votes”, said Kishor.

About his ain party’s inability to marque a mark, Kishor said “We person secured 10 per cent votes….. successful seats wherever Jan Suraaj had nary beingness since these areas were yet to beryllium covered by my padyatra. Also, delight enactment that we got our canvass awesome aft filing of information papers was over”.

He besides maintained that the Jan Suraaj volition spell solo successful the assembly polls owed adjacent twelvemonth erstwhile it volition contention “all 243 seats”.

“We were initially written disconnected but by garnering astir 10 per cent votes, successful a authorities known to ballot on predictable caste lines, we person proved a point. In the adjacent fewer months we shall beryllium strengthening the enactment to guarantee that ballot stock of the Jan Suraaj improves”, helium said.