Jan Suraaj announces candidates for 5 Bihar Legislative Council seats

Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj is getting an early start on Bihar’s next electoral contest, naming candidates for five of the eight Legislative Council seats headed for polls. From backing a sitting MLC for another term to fielding a lawyer-turned-politician against a JD(U) heavyweight, Kishor is widening his party’s footprint in a battle where graduates and teachers, rather than the wider electorate, will call the shots.