Prasant Kishor launches Jan Suraj as political party ahead of next Bihar polls, vows to end liquor ban

The Jan Suraaj Party is expected to contest all Bihar seats in the next assembly election.

Manoj Bharti, a retired officer of the Indian Foreign Service, will head the party.

Launching the party, Kishor said if elected, the party would end liquor prohibition in the state and use the earnings to improve the education sector.

Kishor, who wants a paradigm shift in voting, earlier said that the party leadership will be a decision of the people who worked for the group over the last two years.

For more than two years, Kishor has been travelling across the state, raising awareness about what he says ought to be the election agenda.

Earlier this year, he had announced that he was ready for a formal launch as a political party. His Jan Suraaj, he had said, would offer the people a fresh alternative.

"In Bihar, in the last 25 to 30 years, people have been voting for RJD or BJP. That compulsion should end. The alternative should not belong to any dynastic party, but people who wish to form the party," he had said.

Kishor had started the Jan Suraaj initiative after a brief stint in the ruling Janata Dal-United of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the Congress's aborted effort to recruit him to revitalise the party.