New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- The Prashant Kishor-led Jan Suraaj Party on Monday announced its second list of sixty-five candidates for the forthcoming Bihar Assembly elections. Conspicuously absent from this new list, however, was the name of Kishor himself, who is widely expected to contest the polls from the high-profile Raghopur constituency against RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.

Speaking at a press conference, Kishor confirmed that the party has now named a total of 116 candidates across the state, adding to the fifty-one individuals named in the first list on October 9. Providing a demographic breakdown of the candidates announced to date, he noted that thirty-one belonged to the extremely weaker sections, twenty-one were from Other Backward C...