The Jan Suraaj party on Sunday announced that its founder Prashant Kishor will contest the upcoming bye-poll from Bihar’s Bankipore Assembly constituency.

The seat fell vacant after Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Nabin was elected to the Rajya Sabha in March.

The Election Commission has said the notification for the bye-election will be issued on Monday. Polling will be held on July 30 and the votes will be counted on August 3.

Jan Suraaj made its electoral debut in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, fielding candidates in 238 of the state’s 243 constituencies. The party failed to win a single seat in the November elections.

After the results, Kishor had said that his decision not to contest the Assembly elections himself could be considered a “mistake”. The former political strategist had also said that he had not expected the party to secure less than 4% of the vote. Jan Suraaj had lost its deposits in 236 constituencies, where its candidates failed to secure at least one-sixth of the votes polled.

Kishor had launched the party in October 2024, saying that it would seek to end political helplessness in Bihar by creating an alternative for the voters.

Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.