ED raided the office of I-PACK in Kolkata last Thursday (January 08, 2026) in the coal scam case. On Friday (January 09, 2026), BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal gave a big statement on the ED raid on I-PAC office. He has even discussed Jan Suraj Party.

‘Will you work with the money or invest?’

Sanjay Jaiswal said, “I-PAC has been a very controversial company from the beginning… Even in Bihar, I-PAC had spent Rs 60 crore of its money on Jan Suraj Party… Why was it spent? You are a political consultancy firm, so will you take money to work for the people or invest the money in political parties?”

Sanjay Jaiswal also attacked Mamata Banerjee

He also said, “Just as Ravan’s life was in the navel, similarly Mamata Banerjee’s life is in the coal mafia and human traffickers. This is why there is a raid on a person’s house and the Chief Minister herself goes there and steals hard disks from there, steals papers… There was no raid in her party office, there was no raid at any of her places…”

#WATCH Delhi: On the ED raid on I-PAC office, BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal said, “Just as Ravana’s life was in the navel, similarly Mamata Banerjee’s life is in the coal mafia and human traffickers. This is the reason why a person’s house is raided and the Chief Minister herself goes there… pic.twitter.com/Kq2sWRQ7jW

— ANI_HindiNews (@AHindinews) January 9, 2026

Mamata Banerjee is with the mafia: Sanjay Jaiswal

They had hatched a similar conspiracy in Jharkhand also and they got success in Jharkhand. I Pack is not a political consultancy firm. The work of I-PAC is to form the government, to topple the government… to work by taking money from the mafia… This shows that Mamata Banerjee is with the mafia. This also means that the file of all the scams of Mamata Banerjee was there with which she has fled. The government should also take cognizance and file an FIR against Mamata Banerjee.”

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After not winning a single seat in Bihar elections Jansuraj Party founder and electorate strategist Prashant Kishore leader in Lok Sabha counterpart Has met Rahul Gandhi, after which speculations about Prashant Kishor joining Congress have intensified.

According to sources, on Friday (12 December 2025) 10 There was a conversation between Rahul Gandhi and Prashant Kishore on Janpath for about one and a half hour. Priyanka Gandhi was also present there during this meeting. After not winning a single seat in Bihar elections, Jansuraj Party founder and election strategist Prashant Kishor met Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.

On which issues were the talks between the two leaders?

The issue was also discussed in the meeting that Prashant Kishor would launch his political party Jan Suraj Under what framework and process can the possible merger of Congress be carried out? There have been discussions regarding this at the initial level. Sources reveal that the current political situation of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar was also discussed in depth in the meeting. Especially the role of Election Commission in Bihar elections and SIR ,sir) Questions were raised on issues related to.

Apart from this, there were informal but important talks between the two sides regarding alleged vote theft, electoral transparency and the assembly elections to be held in many states including Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Punjab in the year 2027. In political circles, this meeting will be considered as the future strategy of Congress and organizational It is considered very important from the point of view of expansion.

Proposal was given to strengthen Congress

The path of Prashant Kishor and Congress has been full of ups and downs in the last few years. In the year 2021 he defeated Congress nationwide I had given a proposal to strengthen it again. After this, in the year 2022, he Janpath Located Sonia In front of the party high command including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi at Gandhi’s residence. presentation Had also given.

In the same year, Congress had invited Prashant Kishore to join a team formed for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, but he rejected the offer.

Jan Suraj founder Prashant Kishore broke his silence on not opening his party’s account in Bihar elections and claimed that the elections were ‘rigged’. However, he admitted that at this time he had no evidence to support this allegation.

Prashant Kishor described Jan Suraj’s defeat as a ‘crushing’ defeat, but also stressed that the impact of his campaign was visible at the grassroots level. He claimed that the voting trends were not matching with the feedback his team received during the months-long Jan Suraj Yatra. He said he believed something went wrong.

‘Some unstoppable forces were at play’
Speaking to India Today TV on Sunday (November 23), Prashant Kishor said that some unstoppable forces were at play, parties which people hardly knew got lakhs of votes. Some people are saying that EVMs were tampered. This is something that people accuse after losing. I don’t have any proof, but a lot of things don’t match. Prima facie it seems something has gone wrong, but we don’t know what.

NDA government accused of distributing money
Apart from this, the founder of Jan Suraj also accused the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of distributing money to thousands of women voters in Bihar to manipulate the election results. Kishore said, “From the day of announcement of the elections till the day of voting, the women were given Rs 10,000. Even this amount was not enough for their promise. They were told that they would get a total of Rs 2 lakh and this Rs 10,000 was just the first instalment.

‘Fear of return of Lalu’s jungle raj’
Prashant Kishore further said that another factor that was working most against Jan Suraj was the fear of the return of Lalu’s jungle raj. By the last phase of the campaign, many voters had assumed that Jan Suraj was in no position to win. Their concern was simple, if they voted for us and we did not win, it could pave the way for the return of Lalu’s jungle raj. This fear certainly turned some people away.

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After a huge majority in Bihar, Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister for the 10th time on Thursday. NDA has won 202 out of 243 seats in this election. BJP has won 89 seats, JDU has won 85 seats, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) has won 19 seats, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) has won five seats and Rashtriya Lok Morcha has won four seats. A total of 27 ministers have taken oath in the swearing in of Nitish cabinet.

In such a situation, the statement of Union Minister and LJP (Ram Vilas) supremo Chirag Paswan has come to light. He expressed happiness over the performance of the party. He also fiercely targeted Prashant Kishore, the founder of Jansuraj. Responding to his words, he said, I think people have already given many answers to the opposition and all the allegations made by them. Be it Prashant Kishor or anyone else, his arrogance had reached its peak.

‘Had father been there, he would have been happy’

Union Minister Chirag said, this is a big success for the party. I believe this is because of the blessings of my leader, my father Ram Vilas Paswan. I am feeling very happy today. Knowing that wherever he is, he will be happy with the party’s victory and this success. Must be blessing us. We respect him. Pray that any difficulty or crisis in his family gets resolved as soon as possible.

10 new faces in the cabinet

10 new faces along with old experienced leaders have been included in the 26-member cabinet of the new government, in which special attention has been paid to ethnic and regional balance. On this occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP National President Jagat Prakash Nadda and Chief Ministers of various states were also present.

The crushing defeat of Jan Suraj Party in Bihar Assembly elections has given sleepless nights to Prashant Kishore. Prashant Kishore himself admitted that this result is a big shock for him. He said that he has not slept properly since the election results came out because Jan Suraj performed far less than expected. PK said that to be honest, I have not been able to sleep properly after the results came, but you are not defeated until you accept defeat.

Prashant Kishore, who entered politics as an election strategist, said that his politics is beyond any electoral victory or defeat. He said that if we want to change Bihar, we cannot retreat after losing one election. This is a long fight and I will continue it with full force.

PK had fielded candidates on 238 seats in Bihar.

In Bihar elections 2025, Jan Suraj had contested the elections on a large scale for the first time. However, the party could not win even a single seat. The vote share of the candidates was very low on many seats. Jansuraj got more support than expected in rural areas, but it could not be translated into victory. Prashant Kishore has said these things in an interview given to NDTV.

Jan Suraj Party candidate

Jan Suraj Party had fielded its candidates on 228 seats out of 243. Earlier there was discussion that Prashant Kishor himself can contest the elections. It was being said that either he will contest elections from Karhagar seat or he will contest against Tejashwi Yadav. However, he decided not to contest the elections. Jansuraj got about 16.74 lakh votes in Bihar. However, his party could not win any seat. If we talk about vote percentage, Jansuraj got a total of 3.34 percent support, which is not considered small for a new party. He clearly said that he does not consider not getting votes as a crime. He said that he never took help of caste or religion in elections and will not do so in future also. He also made it clear that he is not going to leave Bihar and the work of Jan Suraj will continue.

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After Bihar Assembly elections, a new controversy has arisen in politics. Jan Suraj has raised questions on the NDA government saying that the amount of Rs 10,000 sent to the women’s accounts just before the voting was used by the state government by withdrawing it from the funds received from the World Bank for some other project. Jan Suraj spokesperson Pawan Verma claims that this money was sent to the accounts shortly before the implementation of the Election Code of Conduct, which had a deep impact on the election environment.

Verma says that this amount was transferred only about an hour ago and many reliable sources informed him about it. Although he also admitted that the truth of this allegation is not completely clear, but if it is proved to be factually correct then it will raise ethical questions on the entire election. Because this scheme of Rs 10,000 reached 1.25 crore women voters and its political impact was being felt by all parties during the elections.

World Bank Fund and Bihar’s increasing debt

In the same sequence, Pawan Verma also said that the debt of the state has increased rapidly and has now reached above Rs 4 lakh crore and a huge amount has to be paid every day in the form of interest. According to him, due to the empty treasury of the government, the help of external funds was taken to send such a huge amount before the elections. He also alleged that a message was spread among the women that if the NDA did not return to power, further funds would be stopped.

Women vote bank and changing nature of electoral equation

Women are continuously playing a decisive role in the politics of Bihar. In the last many elections, women’s voting has been more than men and that is why women’s welfare appears at the forefront of government schemes. Schemes like gas, health, ration and sending money directly into accounts have built a trust in the government among women voters, which influenced the results this time too. Pawan Verma says that this political trust made the path of new options like Jan Suraj difficult. They call it part of electoral economics, where economic aid and political decisions are directly linked to each other.

Free schemes and political contradictions

Verma also pointed out that Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself has criticized free politics many times. But in Bihar elections, sending huge amount directly into the accounts of women was the same type of strategy, which was used for political gains. He said that this contradiction was a topic of discussion among the general public and NDA gained electoral edge through this.

Jan Suraj’s stand and political debate on prohibition

On Jan Suraj’s defeat, it was also said that Prashant Kishor had talked about changes in liquor prohibition when he came to power, which alienated women voters. Rejecting this claim, Pawan Verma said that liquor is available illegally in almost every area of ​​the state and this has increased the problems of the family. According to him, it has a direct impact on women, hence the issue of prohibition cannot be the reason for Jan Suraj’s defeat.

Jan Suraj’s defeat and election logic

Jan Suraj got good overall vote percentage, but did not get even a single seat. Verma attributed this to the changing vote pattern due to Rs 10,000 given to women, NDA’s strong women-centric schemes and the traditional political structure of Bihar. He says that vote percentage and winning seats in Bihar are two completely different things and this election has made this clear.

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In the Bihar Assembly elections 2025, Prashant Kishore’s Jansuraj Party had given a different atmosphere to the entire election by entering the field with tremendous campaigning. While fielding candidates on 238 seats, the party had claimed that the public is ready for change and Jansuraj will play a decisive role. However, the picture that emerged after the counting of votes made the political strength of the party clear. The results showed that the impact of heavy campaigning could not translate into votes on the ground.

The party did not get a single victory in the fight for 238 seats. Only in Madhaura, Jansuraj candidate came second, in almost all other areas the party was reduced to third or fourth position. The counting of votes also made it clear that in many places the party got better votes than expected, but they were not enough to win any seat or pose a serious challenge.

In some seats, Jansuraj’s votes were many times more than NDA’s defeat.

An interesting aspect in the election results was that in many places the number of votes received by Jansuraj candidates was much more than the margin of defeat of the NDA candidate. Because of this, there is a heated discussion in political circles that if Jansuraj had not been in the fray, the result of these seats might have looked different.

Those seven seats where Jansuraj’s votes became a big factor

Below are the details of those 7 seats where NDA lost by a very small margin, but Jansuraj got many times more votes. These seats became the most interesting story of the election results.

Dhaka – NDA lost by only 178 votes, Jansuraj got 8,347 votes.
Jehanabad – difference 793, Jansuraj got 5,760 votes
Makhdumpur – margin 1,830, Jansuraj 4,803 votes
Tikari – margin 2,058, Jansuraj got 2,552 votes
Goh – margin 4,041, Jansuraj 7,996 votes
Bodhgaya – margin 881, Jansuraj 4,024 votes
Chanpatia – margin 602, Jansuraj 37,172 votes

Chanpatia became the biggest example

In Chanpatia, Jansuraj candidate Manish Kashyap secured 37,172 votes, while the NDA candidate lost the election by just 602 votes. This is the reason why this seat became the most discussed seat of the entire election.

Complete picture of Jansuraj in figures

Jansuraj Party contested elections on 238 seats, but could not convert any seat into victory. Naveen Kumar Singh stood second in Marhaura, but he had to face defeat from the RJD candidate by about 27 thousand votes. In all other areas, the party’s performance was mediocre and it could not reach above the third-fourth position.

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Bihar Election Result 2025: Counting of votes continues for the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. By afternoon, a clear picture is emerging, seeing which Prashant Kishore may not be happy. New updates from the Election Commission are showing the strong performance of the NDA while Prashant Kishor’s much talked about Jan Swaraj Party is missing from the race.

NDA’s dominance in initial trends

According to the latest vote counting, BJP is emerging as the largest party with 85 seats. With this, Nitish Kumar’s JDU is leading on 76 seats. Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD is ahead on 34 seats while Chirag Paswan’s LJP is looking strong with 22 seats.

Jan Suraj Party’s photo missing

Despite creating a stir in the initial hours of counting, Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj Party soon lost momentum. In the initial trends, Jan Swaraj Party seemed to be getting very limited success. According to the data, Jan Swaraj Party was leading on only three seats. But after that till around 12 noon the party could not show even a single lead in the official trend list of the Election Commission. Till afternoon the situation remained the same and not a single candidate of Jan Suraj was seen in a position of victory anywhere in the state. Before the elections, Prashant Kishore’s claim that Nitish Kumar’s JDU will be limited to only 25 seats seems to be proved completely wrong.

Why couldn’t Jan Suraj make an impact?

Prashant Kishore spent more than 2 months traveling across Bihar during his Padyatra. Or he visited more than 5000 villages and heard the problems of the people. He promised a new development-oriented option. But the voters ignored all his appeals. From the trends till 12:00 noon, the chances of Jan Suraj Party opening its account appear to be almost zero. Prashant Kishor had appealed to the voters to ‘vote for the future of your children and not for the children of politicians’. Which was completely ignored. This clearly shows that this message alone is not enough to uproot long-standing political habits. That too in such a big assembly election.

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In the initial trends of counting of votes for Bihar Assembly elections, the picture looks disappointing for Prashant Kishor’s party Jansuraj, with the BJP-led NDA taking the lead. In the initial trends, the party does not seem to be getting even a single seat at present. Responding to this, party president Manoj Bharti said that his party itself failed to convey its message properly to the people.

Manoj Bharti’s statement
Bihar Jansuraj President Manoj Bharti said, ‘We were trying to bring new politics in Bihar from the beginning. It is not an easy task to convey this to the public. Prashant Kishore always used to say that if people understand what we say then we will be on top, if they do not understand then we will fail. It is clear from these initial trends that the public has failed to understand us and we have failed to understand the public.

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— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) November 14, 2025

Status of counting of votes in Bihar
Counting of votes for assembly elections in Bihar started at 8 am amid tight security arrangements. 46 counting centers have been set up in 38 districts of the state. Initial trends are emerging for all 243 seats, in which NDA is leading on 189 seats and Grand Alliance is leading on 51 seats.

According to the trends of the Election Commission, under NDA, Janata Dal United is leading on 84 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party on 78, Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas on 22, HAM on four and RLM on one seat. At the same time, Grand Alliance constituents Rashtriya Janata Dal is ahead on 39 seats, Congress on 7, CPI Male-Lenin and CPI Male on one each and other 3 seats.

Vote counting process and security
243 election officers have been deployed to monitor the entire counting process, and 243 counting observers are also present to assist them. All the candidates and their authorized agents are present at the counting centres. Candidates have appointed more than 18,000 agents to ensure fair and transparent counting.

The results of voting held in two phases for Bihar Assembly elections will come today on Friday (14 November). Counting of votes will start at 8 am. There are 243 seats in Bihar Assembly and the majority figure is 122.

The ruling NDA at the Center is expected to again come to power in Bihar, which is currently led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Although he had joined the Grand Alliance twice for a short period. Nitish’s rule and his schemes were the main issues in this Bihar election. The image and publicity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi also remained a major part of NDA’s strategy.

Will Tejashwi change the game?
Tejashwi Yadav, son of Lalu Yadav, who was once a political associate of Nitish, has been declared the face of the Chief Minister by the Grand Alliance. Tejashwi has tried to present himself as a big change maker. It has even promised to provide a job to every family. Strategist turned leader Prashant Kishore has presented himself as an alternative. Like every time in Bihar elections, this time too caste has been an important point for all the parties in promises, ticket distribution and general influence among the voters.

Bihar’s future captured in double-lock system
The Election Commission (EC) has kept all the EVMs and VVPATs safe in a double-lock system inside the strong room. The security of these complexes is under a two-tier security cordon, in which central paramilitary forces are deployed on the inner part and state police are deployed on the outer part. 46 counting centers are being continuously monitored through CCTV.

Most exit polls had predicted an easy victory for the JD(U)-BJP led NDA, with the majority projected at 121-209 seats as against the majority figure of 122 seats. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav rejected these projections, saying that based on his party’s internal feedback, the grand alliance will form the government with an “overwhelming majority”.

What will happen to Jan Suraj Party?
No exit poll has given more than 5 seats to Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj Party. Anyway, PK has said that his party will either form the government or will remain below ten. He tried to contest elections on youth issues and mass unemployment. Initially there was speculation that if the assembly’s decision was not decisive, he could play the role of kingmaker.

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