Overview

• Manish Kashyap, who resigned from the BJP in June after alleging he was “used” and abandoned, officially joined Jan Suraaj with his supporters in Patna on July 7.
• Prashant Kishor welcomed Kashyap as a partner in his system-change campaign, praising his public advocacy and influence among young voters.
• Kashyap first rose to prominence after being arrested in Tamil Nadu over migrant-rights videos and later clashed with junior doctors at Patna Medical College and Hospital.
• Jan Suraaj Party, launched last October, has pledged to contest all 243 Bihar Assembly seats as an independent third front outside both the NDA and Mahagathbandhan.
• Kashyap’s entry aims to amplify the party’s outreach to youth and activists ahead of the likely October–November elections.