{"id":17615,"date":"2026-06-06T17:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/bankipur-by-election-will-be-referendum-on-bjp-led-govt-prashant-kishor-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:58:41","slug":"bankipur-by-election-will-be-referendum-on-bjp-led-govt-prashant-kishor-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/bankipur-by-election-will-be-referendum-on-bjp-led-govt-prashant-kishor-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bankipur by-election will be referendum on BJP-led govt&#8217;: Prashant Kishor | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131548230,imgsize-61682,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/nobody-knows-whats-happening-behind-the-curtain-in-bihar-prashant-kishor.jpg\" alt=\"'Bankipur by-election will be referendum on BJP-led govt': Prashant Kishor\" title=\"Prashant Kishor (File photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Prashant Kishor (File photo)\">Prashant Kishor (File photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) chief <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/prashant-kishor\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Prashant Kishor<\/a> on Saturday termed the by-poll to Bihar\u2019s Bankipur assembly seat a &#8220;referendum&#8221; on the promises made by the BJP during last November\u2019s assembly polls, as the state now has its first chief minister from the saffron party.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>In April, BJP leader Samrat Choudhary succeeded party ally Janata Dal (United) supremo Nitish Kumar as chief minister. Kumar, who served in the top post for over two decades, has moved to the Rajya Sabha along with BJP chief Nitin Nabin, the previous representative of the Bankipur constituency &#8211; a fact highlighted by Kishor.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Nabin moved to the Upper House after being appointed BJP\u2019s national president.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>The date for the Bankipur assembly bypoll is yet to be announced.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>\u201cBankipur is the seat of the BJP\u2019s national president. For the past 40 years, no party or leader has managed to defeat the BJP there,\u201d Kishor told reporters in Patna.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>He added, \u201cThe (BJP-led) NDA won by giving the people of the state Rs 10,000 and by misleading them with false promises. For the first time, someone from the BJP is chief minister. So, the by-election will effectively serve as a referendum on the promises made in November 2025. The public will have the right to vote on those promises \u2014 whether it was the pledge to provide Rs 2 lakh, the promise to halt migration from Bihar, or the commitment to improve the education system and employment opportunities.<!-- -->\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>The former poll strategist further stated that it is for this reason that JSP should contest Bankipur with &#8220;full force&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>The JSP, launched by Kishor in October 2024, made its electoral debut in the Bihar Assembly polls. However, it drew a blank despite contesting 238 of the 243 constituencies.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/bankipur-by-election-will-be-referendum-on-bjp-led-govt-prashant-kishor\/articleshow\/131548233.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prashant Kishor (File photo) NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) chief Prashant Kishor on Saturday termed the by-poll to Bihar\u2019s Bankipur assembly seat a &#8220;referendum&#8221; on the promises made by the BJP during last November\u2019s assembly polls, as the state now has its first chief minister from the saffron party.In April, BJP leader Samrat Choudhary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}