Three out of four candidates from Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj have criminal cases against them

Prashant Kishor had made claims of giving a chance to people with "clean image" in politics. However, in a contrast to the claim, three of his four candidates contesting by-polls in the state face serious criminal charges including kidnapping, attempt to murder, extortion, theft, and assault, reported TOI.

This was revealed after the candidates, contesting elections on newly formed Jan Suraaj's tickets, submitted their affidavits to Election Commission.

The party is contesting in by-elections from all four seats in the state - Belaganj, Imamganj, Ramgarh, and Tarari.



Political experts are surprised as 75 per cent of Jan Suraaj candidates allegedly have a "tainted" image.

Of the three, the party's Imamganj candidate, Jitendra Paswan, faces serious criminal cases like kidnapping, cheating, theft, and assault, according to his self-attested poll affidavit filed before EC. Similarly, Belaganj candidate, Mohammad Amjad, revealed in his poll affidavit about criminal cases.


Party candidate from Ramgarh, Sushil Kushwaha, also has criminal cases against him. His affidavit suggests that he has charges of attempt to muder.

"All our candidates have a 'clean image', and the cases were part of attempts to damage their reputation," Jan Suraaj's national spokesperson, Sadaf Iqbal claimed, adding that revelation of cases pending against them means they didn't hide the facts.