Former election strategist Prashant Kishor’s long-pending entry into electoral politics came today with the formal launch of his Jan Suraj group as a political party. The Jan Suraj Party is expected to contest in all seats of Bihar in the next assembly election. 

Mr Kishor, who talks of changing the paradigm for voting — shifting it from caste and electoral sops to a vision for the future — has said who heads the party will be a decision of the people who worked for the group over the last two years. 

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

Earlier this year, he had announced that he was ready for a formal launch as a political party. His Jan Suraj, 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 alternate should not belong to any dynastic party, but people who wish to form the party,” he had said.