Prashant Kishor Bihar Election Result 2025 Live Updates: NDA set for landslide win; Jan Suraaj fails to open account

Prashant Kishore Bihar Election Result 2025 LIVE Updates: New entrant in the Bihar Election 2025, Jan Suraaj, is witnessing a tough battle against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Mahagathbandhan. It has not been able to lead in a single seat, in alliance with what exit polls had predicted.

Bihar Election Results: What ECI trends show?

The Election Commission's trends as of 10:45 am hinted at a clean sweep for the NDA, while the RJD gets pulled back by its allies. Meanwhile, Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj failed to open its account.

Jan Suraaj was launched by political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor on October 2, 2024.

Is Prashant Kishor contesting Bihar Elections 2025?

Prashant Kishor is not contesting the Bihar Election 2025. He had told news agency PTI, “The party has decided that I should not contest the assembly polls...If I were to contest, it would have distracted me from the necessary organisational work.”

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5 am: ‘People of Bihar are winning’

Jan Suraaj spokesperson Vivek Kumar said, “We are confident that for the first time in 30-35 years, the people of Bihar are winning. In a state where votes have always been cast based on caste and religion, for the first time in 40 years, the government opened its coffers.”

"There was so much fear that if we [the government] didn't work and didn't open the coffers, people would vote for the new option... these exit polls are all fake. When the EVMs are opened tomorrow, you will see the magic of the public. A new system will be created tomorrow...," Vivek Kumar said.

12:00 noon: ‘Failed to make them (Bihar voters) understand’

In an interaction with PTI, Jan Suraaj Bihar president said, “We have been saying from the start that we are trying to bring new politics to Bihar. It is tough to take this politics to the people of Bihar. Prashant Kishor always said if people understood what we were saying, we would be on top; if they didn’t, we would fail. These trends show that people have failed to understand us, and we also failed to make them understand.”

6:41 pm: Jan Suraaj fails to open an account. Here's what party-wise scorecard looks like:

Chirag Paswan wants Kishor to stay true to his words

When asked about Prashant Kishor's statement that he would quit politics if the JD(U) manages to get 25 seats in the Bihar polls, Chirag Paswan said, " He should then stay true to his words... But I am not happy at someone's loss, but at our victory."

The JD(U) has already bagged 66 seats and is currently leading in 19 more.

What did exit polls predict for Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj:

Bihar Election Exit Polls predicted a return of the NDA government in Bihar with a big victory over the Mahagathbandhan, and a disappointing show by Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj in its debut outing.

Axis My India Exit Poll: NDA to win between 121-141 seats, and the Mahagathbandhan 98-118 seats. It gave 0-2 seats to the Jan Suraaj.

People's Pulse poll: 133-159 seats to NDA, 75-101 seats to Mahagathbandhan and 0-5 seats to Jan Suraaj

Matrize Exit Poll: NDA likely getting between 147-167 seats, the Mahagathbandhan 70-90, and the Jan Suraaj between 0-2 seats

JVC: 135-150 seats for the NDA and 88-103 for the Mahagathbandhan.