Overview

• India’s Election Commission set Bihar’s assembly voting for two phases on November 6 and 11, with counting on November 14.
• Prashant Kishor said Jan Suraaj will publish its candidate list on October 9, confirmed his own inclusion, and withheld his constituency.
• Kishor claimed the party could win the entire 28% share of voters outside the NDA and INDIA alliances and about 10% from each bloc, implying roughly 48% support.
• He argued Jan Suraaj would cut into the vote bases of both alliances, describing a potentially altered electoral landscape.
• He predicted JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar would not return as chief minister after the election.