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These days, the excitement regarding by-elections in the politics of Bihar is at its peak, especially the eyes of the entire country are fixed on the Bankipur Assembly by-election (Bankipur Bypoll), which has become a hot seat. Ever since the elections on this seat were announced, Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj Party, which claimed to be a new party, had claimed to exert its full strength here. However, as soon as big leaders and star campaigners of the powerful political party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) entered the electoral fray and started deflating Jan Suraj’s claims on grassroots issues, the attitude of Prashant Kishor and his candidate started cooling down. Their sudden decline in presence from election rallies and public relations campaigns is enough to show that the claims of new political parties start proving hollow as soon as they enter the high-voltage electoral fray.
Reminiscence of 2025 assembly elections: Has Jan Suraj’s political strategy been exposed once again in Bihar?
Political analysts believe that this by-election of Bankipur is not the first incident, but just before this, during the Bihar Assembly elections of 2025, the same condition of Jan Suraj was seen. Even then, Prashant Kishor had made tall claims across the state and presented himself as an alternative to the traditional parties, but when it came to polarization of votes on the ground and grassroots cadre, the so-called ‘chariot of change’ of Jan Suraj had died midway. The same old pattern is being repeated once again in Bankipur, where after the initial media hype and big speeches, as soon as the real contest of elections begins, Prashant Kishore’s team is unable to stand in front of the sharp questions of the public and starts distancing itself from the electoral field.
Modern Generative AI and Political Data Analysis: The gap between election ads and ground reality
In the era of modern Generative AI, political data analytics and digital campaigning, it has now become very easy to understand how much of the air of any political party is real and how much is digital propaganda. According to election experts, Prashant Kishor’s strategy mainly depends on creating an artificial environment with the help of social media algorithms, paid interviews and advertisements, which looks very attractive on the digital screen but when it comes to booth management, worker engagement and public trust at the ground level, this entire structure collapses like a house of cards. BJP’s disciplined and cadre-based election campaign in Bankipur by-election has once again proved that elections cannot be won on the ground merely by being an election strategist.
Big discussion in the political corridors of Lucknow and Patna: Questions are being raised on the future of regional parties and new options.
The echo of this political upheaval in Bihar and Bankipur by-election is clearly being heard in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh and other political centers of the country. Political analysts and election experts of Lucknow say that the fate of Jan Suraj and Prashant Kishor in Bihar is the same as that of all those regional and new parties who dream of gaining power directly without any strong ideological base and grassroots organization. Meanwhile, the local voters of Bankipur say that they are not concerned with big speeches or the web of figures, rather they want a strong government that provides development and law and order, due to which now the false claims are slowly being exposed.