Exclusive: Prashant Kishor set to bring Jan Suraaj Party to Delhi

Exclusive: Prashant Kishor set to bring Jan Suraaj Party to Delhi Aiming to contest the coming Delhi polls, Kishor is holding a session of JSP supporters in national capital Sunday, where a steering committee would be unveiled to put in place the.

Key points

• 5 min read New Delhi Sep 26, 2026 06: 00 AM IST First published on: Sep 26, 2026 at 06: 00 AM IST.
• In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP swept all seven seats in Delhi for the third consecutive time since 2014.
• Purvanchalis in Delhi, who hail from Bihar and east Uttar Pradesh, have been a key factor in determining the poll outcome in 15-20 Assembly seats.
• This person trace their roots to Bihar, are probable to attend the party's Sunday session to be held at Lok Kala Manch or Janpath's Western Court.
• "The Jan Suraaj Party is now looking to build a presence in Delhi, especially among the city's sizeable Purvanchali population, " a source remarked.

Barely two months after Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor pulled off a resounding win in the Bankipur Assembly bypoll in Patna, the JSP is due to expand its footprint, looking to create Delhi its first stepping stone outside Bihar.

Kishor, 49, is going to hold a session of JSP supporters in Delhi on Sunday, where a party steering committee to oversee its affairs in the national capital would be unveiled, sources noted.

Founded by poll strategist-turned-politician Kishor on October 2, 2024, the JSP had created its Assembly poll debut in the November 2025 Bihar elections, failing to open its account despite contesting 238 of the state's 243 seats. The elections were swept by the BJP-led NDA. It had bagged 202 seats as against the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan's 35. In Prashant Kishor's win, BJP's moment of reckoning.

Nevertheless, in August this year, Kishor bounced back by winning the high-profile Bankipur seat on his electoral debut. The bypoll in Bankipur was necessitated after its five-term MLA Nitin Nabin vacated it after his elevation as the BJP national president and his election to the Rajya Sabha.

Plenty of Purvanchali supporters of the JSP. This person trace their roots to Bihar, are probable to attend the party's Sunday session to be held at Lok Kala Manch or Janpath's Western Court.

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"The individuals in Delhi are tired of the BJP and the AAP. Moreover, they have seen Kishor's vision for Bihar and Bankipur. We are hopeful of doing well in the national capital, " a party insider remarked.

Notably, the JSP is zeroing in on a site for its Delhi office, with sources saying a couple of locations have been shortlisted and that only formalities relating to lease and rent have yet to be finalised.

Meanwhile, the proposed JSP steering committee would be a precursor to the party's Delhi unit. As sources indicate, those probable to be part of this panel include advocate Tathagath Harshwardhan, son of ex-Buxar MP K K Tiwari. This person was the party's Buxar candidate in the 2025 polls; Prof Shantanu Kumar of Deshbandhu College, Delhi University; J P Singh, a former Further Director General of Police of Himachal Pradesh who contested the Chapra seat on a party ticket.

Other JSP leaders projected to be inducted in the committee include Kunwar Chandresh, the Bihar party unit's intellectual cell head and former IES officer; advocate Abu Affan Farooquee, Bihar unit's minority wing chief and ex-AMU Students' Union president; Priyanka Singh from the party's Bihar Mahila wing; businessman Ajay Singh; and former ONGC director Badi Ud Doja, a prominent Seemanchal figure and son of former Bihar minister B Doja. Prashant Kishor's failure in Bihar demonstrates why strategies cannot replace 'sangathan'.

In practice, the JSP steering committee will be mandated to put in place the structure and office-bearers of the party in Delhi, sources remarked.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Shantanu Kumar remarked: "Despite not having a party organisation in place in Delhi, we have been reaching out to residents taking Kishor's message and vision to them. The response has been positive."

Kumar remarked the JSP would contest all the coming elections in Delhi, ranging from the 2027 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls to the 2029 Lok Sabha elections and the 2030 Assembly polls.

As individuals have seen in Bihar, "Ours is an inclusive party. We have no special focus on any particular community and will take along individuals from all economic and social strata of society, including Purvanchalis. It constitute around 25% of the electorate, " Kumar stated.

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He remarked the JSP's USP would be to provide "out-of-the-box solutions" to the difficulties plaguing the individuals of Delhi. "For instance, take the matter of air pollution and cleaning of Yamuna. There are mechanisms in place to tackle these problems but they are hardly effective. We will try to offer innovative solutions to agreement with them effectively, " he continued.

Purvanchalis in Delhi, who hail from Bihar and east Uttar Pradesh, have been a key factor in determining the poll outcome in 15-20 Assembly seats. They mostly fall in the northeast, east and southeast belts of the national capital.

In the 2025 Delhi elections, the BJP stormed to power by trouncing the AAP led by three-term chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, winning 48 of 70 seats as against the latter's 22 with the Congress again drawing a blank.

In short, exclusive: Prashant Kishor set to bring Jan Suraaj Party to Delhi is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.