Prashant Kishor Launches Party Before Bihar Polls, Vows To End Liquor Ban

Patna: Former election strategist Prashant Kishor’s long-pending entry into electoral politics came today with the formal launch of his Jan Suraaj group as a political party. The Jan Suraaj Party is expected to contest all seats of Bihar in the next assembly election. The party will be headed by Manoj Bharti, a retired officer of the Indian Foreign Service. Mr Kishor has said if elected, the party would end prohibition of liquor in the state and use the earnings to improve the education sector. Mr Kishor, who talks of changing the paradigm for voting — shifting it from caste and electoral sops to a vision for the future — had said who heads the party will be a decision of the people who worked for the group over the last two years.