Overview
- Jan Suraaj is contesting virtually all 243 Assembly seats, with 239 candidates left in the fray after withdrawals and one rejection, in its first Bihar election.
- Prashant Kishor pledged no tie-ups before or after the polls and framed voter support as a leap-of-faith choice for a third alternative to the NDA and Mahagathbandhan.
- Affidavits show a relatively credentialed slate with 55 post‑graduates, 94 graduates, 11 PhDs and about 22 doctors alongside several engineers.
- ADR’s first‑phase analysis reports 44% of Jan Suraaj nominees declared criminal cases and 43% serious cases, lower than the RJD and BJP shares on those metrics.
- The party nominated 25 women and 28 Muslim candidates and blended prominent turncoats with village mukhiyas, district council members and municipal figures.