Updated on: Nov 18, 2025 12:11 pm IST
Prashant Kishor said the outcome reflected shortcomings in his own approach and accepted full responsibility for the defeat.
Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor on Tuesday issued his first public response after his party failed to win a single seat in the recently concluded Bihar assembly elections. Speaking in Patna, Kishor said the outcome reflected shortcomings in his own approach and accepted full responsibility for the defeat.
Kishor said he fully owned the party’s electoral setback, acknowledging that the defeat reflected his inability to convince voters. “If the public did not show faith in us, then the responsibility for that is completely mine. I take that responsibility 100% on myself, that I could not win the faith of the people of Bihar,” he said.
“We made an honest effort, but it was completely unsuccessful. There’s no harm in admitting this. Forget about systemic change; we couldn’t even bring about a change in power,” the political analyst-turned-politician said, adding that Jan Suraaj had nevertheless “played some role in changing Bihar’s politics.”
Kishor acknowledged that gaps in strategy and communication may have contributed to the setback. “There must have been some mistake in our efforts, in our thinking, in the way we explained that the public had not elected us,” he said.
