00:00From zero in Bihar's electoral arithmetic in November of 2025 to Bankipur's hero today and a direct challenge to the
00:09BJP in Bihar.
00:10There was a time when Prashant Kishore had a strange position in Bihar politics.
00:15Everybody knew his name, his work, but nobody knew his vote.
00:20He had advised some of India's biggest political leaders.
00:24He had helped build campaigns.
00:26He had spent years travelling through Bihar talking about migration, jobs, education and a new political alternative.
00:36But when Bihar finally went to polls in 2025, the reality was brutal.
00:42Jansuraj contested 238 of 243 seats.
00:47It won zero.
00:49Its vote share was around 3.44%.
00:52The strategist who had spent years telling politicians how to win could not win a single seat himself.
01:00But politics is like a seesaw.
01:03Sometimes you go down, sometimes you come up.
01:06And in 2026 came Bankipur, a BJP fortress for decades.
01:12A seat where Prashant Kishore was not supposed to simply win.
01:16He was supposed to struggle to survive.
01:18But today, the Jan has backed the Suraj chief.
01:23And the question on everyone's mind now is,
01:26what does a Prashant Kishore breakthrough do to the Bihar's,
01:31or should I say to the state's, entire political equation?
01:34As we say, Bihar ka samikaran.
01:37Because this is not just about one seat.
01:40It is about what happens when Nitish Kumar is no longer the center of political universe.
01:48First of the story.
01:49And then I'll try and decode what this pipole result means for various players in the context of Bihar.
01:58And I'll get you the guests as well.
02:15A tectonic shift in Bihar politics.
02:23Monday blues for the BJP.
02:26A tectonic shift in Bihar.
02:57Prashant Kishore has pulled off a major political upset.
03:00Winning the Bankipur Assembly by poll and ending the BJP's 30-year-old grip on one of its strongest urban
03:08bastions.
03:09The poll strategist-turned-politician has won his maiden election,
03:13defeating both the BJP and the RJD in a high-stakes triangular contest.
03:18The victory also gives Jan Suraj its first-ever poll victory.
03:45The win marks a dramatic turnaround for a party that drew a blank just months ago.
03:54In the 2025 Assembly elections, Jan Suraj contested 238 seats, failed to win even one and lost deposits in 236
04:05constituencies.
04:06Bankipur has now rewritten that story.
04:09So, what worked for Prashant Kishore in Bankipur?
04:15Anti-incumbency against BJP.
04:18Jobs and education pitch.
04:21Youth anger over paper leaks.
04:23Strong urban connect.
04:26Third option appeal and triangular contest.
04:30Unlike the BJP's conventional campaign, Kishore went hyper-local.
04:34Mahalla meetings, chai baitaks, padhyatras and jansamwaad programs became his political campaign trail.
04:43His pitch remained simple.
04:45Vote for your children's future, not the politics of the past.
04:51But Bankipur has never been an easy constituency to crack.
04:55It is a layered caste matrix.
04:59Kayas form 14% of electorate.
05:02Followed by OBC's 15%.
05:04Yadav's who form 10-12%.
05:07Muslims, 7-9%.
05:09And Dalit's who form 8% of the voters.
05:14Bankipur's caste equations make it a constituency where social equations have traditionally shaped outcomes.
05:22For the BJP, it's the loss of a constituency closely associated with party president Nitin Nabeen's political career.
05:31For RJD, finishing behind Jant Suraj strengthens Prashant Kishore's claim as a serious challenger in Bihar's opposition space.
05:42Elsewhere, the BJP managed to retain Manjalpur in Gujarat.
05:49While the Congress notched up a key victory in Madhya Pradesh's Dathya.
05:55But it was Bankipur that delivered the day's biggest political headline.
06:05Bankipur may have been just won by poll.
06:08But its message is far bigger than one seat.
06:11For years, Prashant Kishore scripted victories for others.
06:15Today, he has scripted his own.
06:18And in the process, redrawn Bihar's political map.
06:23With Rohit Singh and Shashi Bhushan, Bureau Report, India Today.
06:31First reaction coming in now from the BJP president, Nitin Nabeen, on the by-poll results.
06:37Nitin Nabeen is saying that we accept the mandate received in today's three assembly by-elections in Bakipur and Dathya.
06:45We did not receive the expected mandate.
06:47We will conduct a thorough introspection of the election results in both these areas with complete seriousness,
06:53with renewed energy and determination.
06:56We express our heartfelt gratitude to the people of Manjalpur Assembly Constituency.
07:01So, Nitin Nabeen is now reacted.
07:05Remember, this is the constituency that he had held.
07:07And because he moved to Parliament, that is the reason why there was a by-poll that was conducted in
07:13Bankipur,
07:14which has been won by Jan Suraj.
07:17Let me bring in the guests who are joining us.
07:19Sajjan Kumar, political analyst, joins me.
07:21Sanjay Kumar, sophologist, joins me.
07:24Sanjay Kumar, your thoughts on this result.
07:27What has happened in Bihar today, according to you?
07:32Maria, if you look at the decline in the vote share of BJP compared to the last assembly election,
07:39which was held last year in the month of November,
07:42it's a 28% decline in Bakipur assembly seat.
07:45I think if we go by these numbers,
07:49my own sense is that it is a clear indication of people's unhappiness
07:53with the ruling BJP in the state.
07:57If not in the state, certainly in the constituency, which went to polls.
08:01Okay.
08:02This is unhappiness.
08:03That's what you see it.
08:04Sajjan, how much of this has to do with the protests,
08:08the student protests, the Gen Z protests that Bihar saw along with several of the parts of India?
08:15Maria, it was, Bakipur, as you know, is the safest seat for BJP.
08:20I mean, since 1995, even in the heydays of Jan Tadal or RJD under Lalu Prasad Yadav,
08:25the BJP retained that seat.
08:27Typical middle class centric with significant upper caste pro-BJP population.
08:34And losing that, that too by a margin of around 20,000 cannot be a localized constituency centric anger.
08:42And whatever feedback was coming, people still were hesitating in calling out the expected result
08:48because the assumption was it is too safe a seat to be lost.
08:54People thought that maybe it would be close, maybe it would be a bit difficult,
08:57but people were hedging.
08:59So, be it about the issue that are being attributed,
09:02that it was about Samrat Chowdhury being an outsider, UGC regulation, Bharatiwari encounter,
09:06it was all there when Prasanth Kishore filed nomination
09:10and people were expecting that perhaps coming up as a runner-up ahead of RJD,
09:15it's an Urdian achievement.
09:16So, that is why another variable that has come as a new and decisive variable
09:25is certainly the student protest and the image, right?
09:29That started traveling wherein many of the parents, middle class, upper middle class,
09:35households, parents, especially mothers, they also felt aggrieved seeing that students
09:40are being beaten, right?
09:42And more so, also, mind it, when students are being beaten,
09:47that is the dominant perception, when they are raising on, protesting on an issue
09:52concerning the examination, which is the venue to global aspiration.
09:54So, then, you know, you have interestingly said mothers were aggrieved.
09:58Remember, this was the first election in the absence of Nitish Kumar,
10:03the dominant political force in Bihar.
10:05So, let's look at the first, you know, the picture that I am going to analyze on this show
10:13over the next 20 minutes.
10:15Ladies and gentlemen, in the context of Bihar,
10:18Nitish Kumar has always been the central pillar.
10:23So, if Bihar politics were the Marvel Universe,
10:27Nitish Kumar would be Tony Stark.
10:31Every major political storyline somehow began or ended with Nitish.
10:38Governments changed, coalitions flipped,
10:42friends became rivals and rivals became allies,
10:45but the entire political universe continued to orbit around one man,
10:51Sushasan Babu.
10:52Then, in April 2026, that constant disappeared.
10:56Nitish Kumar resigned as the chief minister and moved to Rajya Sabha in Bihar,
11:02got something it had never had before, a BJP chief minister.
11:07Samrat Chaudhary became the first BJP leader
11:11to occupy the chief minister's chair in Bihar.
11:15So, this Bakipur election was politically significant
11:18for a reason bigger than Bakipur.
11:21This was the first real electoral test of Bihar
11:26after the Nitish era.
11:28In the 2025 assembly elections, the NDA had swept Bihar.
11:33BJP emerged as the largest party with 89 seats,
11:37while the RJD was reduced to 25.
11:40The JD, you remember, won 85 seats.
11:43Verdict 2025 was a farewell election to a chief minister
11:48who had served Bihar for 20 years.
11:53But Bakipur bipole results tells a different story.
11:58Can the BJP inherit Nitish's political space
12:01without inheriting Nitish's political aura?
12:04Because Nitish had something unique.
12:07He was not merely a BJP ally,
12:09he was an independent political brand.
12:11He had his own caste equations.
12:15The Kurmis, his own caste.
12:17Women voter base built through welfare schemes.
12:21His own governance record centered on roads,
12:24law and order and social welfare
12:26and the credibility of having led Bihar
12:28for nearly two decades.
12:30He was the engineer chief minister,
12:32a leader Biharis looked up to.
12:35Many voters who supported the NDA
12:37did so because they trusted Nitish
12:39as much as they trusted the alliance.
12:42Samrat Chowdhury has none of that inherited political capital.
12:46He has to build his own legitimacy
12:49while simultaneously proving that the BJP can govern Bihar
12:53without relying on Nitish's personal appeal.
12:56That makes every election after Nitish a test
13:00not just of the BJP's organization
13:02but of its ability to retain the coalition of women,
13:06extremely backward classes,
13:07the Mahadalits, the Pasmandas,
13:10all that painstakingly assembled by Nitish Kumar.
13:15Also, Bankipur isn't just a typical Bihar constituency.
13:18It is an urban seat where civic issues
13:22that's roads, traffic, drainage, jobs, education
13:27and infrastructure often matter as much as caste arithmetic.
13:31And that is precisely why Prashant Kishore's win
13:34in Bankipur is uncomfortable for the BJP.
13:37Kishore is trying to establish Jant Suraj
13:40as Bihar's new political alternative
13:42at exactly the moment.
13:43The state is transitioning from one political era to another.
13:48He has performed strongly in the BJP stronghold
13:51and it strengthens the argument
13:53that a post-Nitish political space is opening
13:56one where urban middle-class voters,
13:59young voters and sections dissatisfied
14:01with both the BJP and the RJD
14:03are willing to experiment with the third force.
14:06It seems PK is trying to replace the Nitish model
14:10by following in Nitish's footsteps.
14:12So, let me go back now to Sanjay Kumar now.
14:17Sanjay Kumar, this is also trying to talk about education
14:22and the issues that Nitish raised.
14:29Certainly, because if you look at the issues
14:31on which Prashant Kishore has been campaigning,
14:33the basic issue is he's saying,
14:35he said in this election,
14:37it's not an election of one Parliamentary Assembly constituency,
14:40it is an election against the chief minister
14:45who has got a tainted image.
14:47He also emphasized that this is an election
14:49not for the present,
14:50but for the future of your children.
14:52Because when he spoke about the future of the children,
14:55he emphasized the need for education.
14:58So, he wanted to send out a message
14:59that he wants to play a politics
15:02which is beyond caste, religion,
15:05making alliances beyond caste and religion
15:07and just to do a politics
15:11which secures the future of your children.
15:14And he kept talking about the education, health, etc.
15:17which also helps him in connecting with the common masses.
15:22Sajjan, you know, in post-Nitish era,
15:25there is a vacuum which has been left
15:27that here is a chief minister that Bihar really...
15:31You know, Bihar doesn't believe
15:33in making its leaders cult-like.
15:35It may happen in some parts of southern India.
15:38But in Bihar,
15:40Nitish Kumar occupied that space of a chief minister
15:43that Biharis trusted.
15:45That trust factor seems to have been broken.
15:49And then the vacuum has been created
15:52about a chief minister who was an engineer.
15:55Look at his educational profile as well.
15:57Yes, precisely.
15:59And immense relatability of Nitish Kumar
16:01to the Biharis Mita.
16:03You know, in 1990s,
16:04being Bihari became a stigma,
16:06almost sort of a stigma.
16:08And he brought it out from that.
16:10Two, he was relatable to the middle class,
16:13to the poor, to the Mahadalists, to women.
16:15And after that, you know,
16:18there was a vacuum that,
16:19do you have a chief minister,
16:22a leader who signify all these immense relatability
16:25along with Bihari Smita outside Bihar in one go?
16:28No, certainly not.
16:30And therefore, Prashant Kishore,
16:31despite his electoral colossal loss,
16:34was constantly raising that issue.
16:37You know, the voice of Bihar.
16:38This has to be go to his credit.
16:41But at this juncture,
16:43there are three aspects.
16:45One, this mandate is a crisis of the core voter to BJP.
16:51Bhankepur is about the core vote that dominates.
16:55So it's the crisis of the core.
16:57Two, it seems that the BJP feedback mechanism
17:02is not a two-way process,
17:04because had that been the case,
17:06they would have taken cognizance,
17:08because the margin of defeat is not close.
17:1120,000 matters a lot in the safest state.
17:15Right?
17:15And three, at this juncture,
17:19a party has to take generational perspective
17:22as the clue,
17:24rather than trying to frame an event
17:26into ideological perspective.
17:28Right?
17:29Because they have shared ends.
17:31Yeah.
17:31Yes.
17:32So, you know,
17:33because this election mattered a lot
17:36for the current Bihar chief minister,
17:38let's try and understand
17:40as to what it means for Samrat Chaudhary.
17:44The current Bihar chief minister.
17:47Soon after winning Bhankepur,
17:48Prashant Kishore sharpened his attack
17:50against Bihar chief minister, Samrat Chaudhary.
17:53His message was clear.
17:54Bihar wants a clean, capable and educated leadership.
17:58A leadership that fills the vacuum left
18:00by engineer chief minister, Nitesh Kumar.
18:03For Samrat Chaudhary,
18:04the Bhankepur bipole defeat
18:06is not just another electoral loss.
18:08It is a report card.
18:10The political symbolism is significant.
18:12Samrat is the first BJP chief minister of Bihar,
18:16representing a generational and political transition
18:19from a Nitesh-centric era
18:21to a BJP-led Bihar.
18:24Kishore has already projected Bhankepur
18:26as a referendum on Samrat's leadership.
18:29A Jan Suraj victory on a sea
18:31traditionally seen as BJP's stronghold,
18:36held by BJP state chief Nitin Nabeen,
18:39that he has been winning
18:42for almost five consecutive terms.
18:45A seat that the party had secured
18:47almost 60% of vote
18:49will be seen as a huge embarrassment
18:52for Samrat Chaudhary.
18:53But the bigger story is the social equation
18:56behind the win.
18:58Kishore appears to have cut across caste lines,
19:01challenging Bihar's traditional caste-based
19:03electoral calculations.
19:06Bhankepur's social mix includes
19:09Kayasth's around 14%,
19:11Bhumiyar's around 7%,
19:13Brahmins around 7%,
19:14all upper castes.
19:16And Rajput's around 5%.
19:17The Yadav's make up to
19:19somewhere between 10% to 12%.
19:21The Dalits and the Mahal Dalits
19:23are around 8%,
19:24while OBC groups like the Kurmis,
19:27Kushwaha's,
19:28Chandrawanshi's account for nearly 15%.
19:30Yet this victory does not appear
19:32to be built around
19:34one fixed caste combination
19:36that could signal the beginning
19:38of a new form of social engineering.
19:40The police encounter death
19:42of activist Bharat Bhushan Tiwari
19:44also played a crucial role
19:46in PK's victory.
19:48It gave Prashant Kishore
19:50and Jan Suraj a major opportunity
19:51to attack the state government
19:53over law and order
19:53and may have alienated
19:55a section of the upper caste
19:57as well from the BJP.
19:58The BJP may call it
20:00a Baakipur phenomenon,
20:01a very limited, pocket-driven,
20:04but the real test is this.
20:06Can Samrat Chaudhary
20:07stop Prashant Kishore
20:09from becoming the political voice
20:10of Bihar's frustrated youth?
20:12Because Kishore's pitch
20:14is neither classic RJD politics,
20:17nor traditional BJP politics,
20:19nor Nitish Kumar's model.
20:21His appeal is built around issues
20:23that directly impact people's lives,
20:25jobs, migration, education,
20:27governance and political change.
20:29This gives him a new constituency,
20:32aspirational Biharis
20:33seeking opportunity
20:34and better livelihoods.
20:36And that is where the BJP
20:38faces its biggest challenge.
20:40A new challenger does not need
20:42to replace BJP's voters completely.
20:46It also needs to create
20:47enough voter leakage
20:49across enough, you know,
20:51close seats.
20:51For Samrat Chaudhary,
20:53this is a warning signal.
20:56As Bihar's first BJP chief minister,
20:58his challenge is not only
20:59to defeat the RJD,
21:01but also to counter
21:02the growing idea
21:03that Bihar is looking
21:04for another political alternative.
21:07Let me go back
21:08to the experts
21:10that I have on the show.
21:12I'm going to begin with you, Sajan.
21:13What does this result mean
21:16for Samrat Chaudhary?
21:19It's certainly unambiguously,
21:21it is embarrassing.
21:22One, because his selection
21:26as chief minister was justified
21:28that he represents,
21:29you know, a caste base
21:31among the OBCs
21:33next to Yadavs
21:34and thereby he is filling
21:36a Nitish Kumar vacuum
21:37in terms of social equation.
21:39Two, it was also considered
21:41that the equation between
21:43Samrat and Nitin Nabeen
21:45was support to work in tandem.
21:47But you see,
21:48Prashant Kishore's strategy,
21:50while he singularly
21:51attacked Samrat Chaudhary,
21:52he never attacked Nitin Nabeen
21:54and that was a very smart tactics
21:56because someone who as an MLA
21:58since 2005 onward,
22:012006 onward,
22:02has been door-to-door connect
22:05in the constituency,
22:06he was not connecting.
22:07So you see the subtext.
22:09So in a way,
22:10Prashant Kishore's strategy
22:11of winning and appealing
22:13to the vote
22:13while being generic
22:14along the issues,
22:16along the line of issues
22:17was also directed
22:19against Samrat Chaudhary.
22:20So it's a huge embarrassment
22:22because he needed
22:24to pass this test
22:25to prove that his selection
22:26after Nitin Kumar
22:27as the first BJP chief minister,
22:30you know,
22:30has the tangible,
22:32tangible political
22:33and electoral base
22:34and that he has failed.
22:36This is one.
22:36Second,
22:37mind it,
22:38it would be red
22:39in the backdrop of 2024,
22:41Lok Sabha election,
22:42wherein Shahabad
22:43and Aurangabad,
22:45Kushwaha's voted over
22:47mainly against BJP
22:49and NDA
22:50when he was the deputy chiefmist.
22:52Right?
22:53So he failed
22:54to brought that
22:55into,
22:55you know,
22:56NDA's kitty.
22:57So that is why
22:58for Samrat Chaudhary
22:59personally,
23:00you know,
23:01this is a huge embarrassment
23:03and he would need
23:04to deliver something
23:05colloquially impressive
23:07to compensate that.
23:08Otherwise,
23:09he is not articulate
23:11compared to
23:13Prashant Kishore.
23:15Two,
23:15we know
23:15there is a
23:16zenzification
23:17which means
23:18the youths
23:18with demographic
23:19have
23:20in India
23:2118 to 25
23:22is around 20%.
23:2315 to 30
23:24in 2029
23:25would be 25%.
23:27In BR,
23:28the proportion
23:28is way more.
23:29It is almost
23:30around one third.
23:31Let's move now.
23:32Who has the ability
23:33to connect
23:34to that set of
23:34cohort of voters?
23:35Let's move now
23:35to Tejasvi
23:37because as much
23:39as we talk about BJP,
23:41I think the biggest
23:42setback
23:42is for Tejasvi
23:44Yadav
23:45because Prashant Kishore's
23:46win in Bankipur
23:47is being read
23:48as a BJP story.
23:49It isn't.
23:50The real casualty
23:51tonight is the RJD.
23:53Rekha Kumari,
23:54the RJD candidate,
23:56finished a distant third
23:57behind Jan Suraj,
23:59behind BJP
24:00in a seat
24:00where the fight
24:01has always been
24:02between NDA
24:04and the India bloc.
24:06Today,
24:06it was Jan Suraj
24:07versus the BJP.
24:08RJD was a spectator.
24:10And there is
24:11a personal irony
24:12here for Tejasvi
24:13Yadav
24:14specifically.
24:15In 2015,
24:16Tejasvi,
24:17barely 25,
24:18became the youngest
24:19deputy chief minister
24:20in Bihar's history.
24:22Many at that time
24:23credited that
24:24grand alliance itself,
24:26Lalu Yadav
24:26and Nitish Kumar
24:27sonir,
24:28rivals coming together
24:29to Prashant Kishore's
24:30strategy.
24:31PK was the man
24:32in the room
24:33professionally steering
24:35the coalition
24:36called
24:36Mahagadbandan
24:37that made a
24:3825-year-old
24:39deputy chief minister.
24:4011 years on,
24:42that same strategist
24:44just beat
24:45Tejasvi's party
24:46in the capital.
24:48The man once
24:49seen shaping
24:50Tejasvi's rise
24:51is now the one
24:52disrupting it.
24:54And the numbers
24:55matter.
24:572025,
24:58this seat,
24:59RJD polled
25:0029.55%,
25:01a strong second,
25:032026,
25:04same seat,
25:05nine months later,
25:06RJD's share
25:08has crashed
25:09to roughly
25:10half
25:10than that.
25:13a 30%
25:14party
25:15reduced
25:16to a distant
25:17third
25:17in under
25:18a year.
25:20Here's
25:21the deeper
25:21problem.
25:22In 2020,
25:23Tejasvi,
25:24young,
25:24energetic,
25:25running the
25:26campaign
25:26virtually alone
25:27with Lalu
25:28jailed,
25:29built his
25:30entire pitch
25:31around jobs
25:32and youth
25:32aspiration.
25:33It nearly
25:34made him
25:35chief minister.
25:36Five years
25:37later,
25:38in 2025,
25:39he ran
25:39the same
25:40script,
25:4017 lakh
25:41jobs,
25:42youth
25:42anger,
25:42anti-incumbency,
25:43almost unchanged.
25:45It delivered
25:46RJD the
25:47highest vote
25:48share of
25:48any party
25:49in Bihar,
25:50that is at
25:5023%,
25:51and still
25:51only 25 seats
25:53of 143
25:54seats,
25:55votes
25:56without power.
25:57The aspiration
25:58pitch that
25:58once made him
25:59the youngest
26:00deputy chief
26:00minister in
26:01India hasn't
26:02been refreshed
26:03since,
26:03and Bankipur,
26:05an urban,
26:05young,
26:06Gen Z-leaning
26:07seat,
26:08just showed
26:09that vote
26:10now has
26:10somewhere else
26:11to go.
26:12One seat,
26:13one MLA,
26:14arithmetically
26:15meaningless,
26:16many would
26:16say,
26:16in a 243-member
26:18house.
26:19But perception
26:20isn't arithmetic,
26:21it's momentum.
26:22Tejasvi can no
26:23longer mock
26:23Jansuraj as
26:25background noise.
26:26Fight PK
26:28for the same
26:29anti-establishment
26:30space he once
26:31helped build
26:32for the RJD
26:33or watch him
26:34take it apart
26:35seat by seat.
26:37The man who
26:37made Tejasvi
26:38Bihar's
26:39youngest deputy
26:40chief minister
26:40is now the
26:41man eating
26:42into his
26:42opposition space.
26:44The question
26:44for the RJD
26:45tonight is,
26:46is this still
26:47Tejasvi's fight
26:48to lead or
26:49has the
26:50strategist
26:50become the
26:51rival?
26:53The opposition
26:54space has
26:55shifted today.
26:57Sanjay Kumar,
26:58will that be a
26:59safe assessment
26:59that Tejasvi
27:01will have to
27:02go back to
27:02the drawing
27:03board,
27:03that he will
27:04have to
27:05reanalyze what
27:06he is doing.
27:07The opposition
27:08space has
27:09shifted.
27:10It is PK
27:11who is now
27:11the challenger.
27:12He may be
27:13one man army
27:14in the assembly
27:14but he will
27:15be making
27:15the loudest
27:16noise.
27:18Maria, you
27:18used the word
27:19opposition space
27:20has been shifted.
27:21I would have
27:22reservation to
27:22use the word
27:23opposition space
27:24but yes,
27:25narrative seems
27:26to have shifted
27:28a little bit
27:28but still space,
27:30if we mean by
27:31space, it is
27:321 versus 25
27:33in the assembly.
27:34So I still
27:35don't believe
27:36that the
27:36opposition space
27:37has shifted
27:38but yes,
27:39narrative seems
27:40to have shifted
27:40and in Indian
27:42elections these
27:43days, narratives
27:44also play a
27:44very important
27:45role.
27:46And your
27:48assessment,
27:49quickly, 30
27:49seconds I have
27:50for you,
27:50Sajjan.
27:52adding on to
27:53Professor Sanjay
27:54Kumar's thing,
27:55I think, yeah,
27:55it's narrative
27:56but mind it,
27:57sometimes outcomes
27:59are overshined
28:01by optics
28:01and in optics
28:02if Prasanth Kishor
28:04is a relatable
28:05alternative,
28:06then people who
28:07used to
28:08appreciate him
28:09in the past
28:10but thought that
28:11voting for him
28:12is a waste
28:13because he
28:14doesn't have
28:14the winning
28:15quotient because
28:16of the perception
28:17disadvantage,
28:18now that is
28:19not the case.
28:20He has the
28:21relatability,
28:22he has the
28:23emerged as a
28:24bona fide
28:24alternative and
28:25if it alliance
28:26and other
28:27equations work,
28:28this optics has
28:29the potential to
28:30translate into
28:31anti-BJP vote
28:33possibility at the
28:34cost of RJD,
28:35the prime
28:36opposition party.
28:37So, that's a
28:38tangible possibility.
28:39So, I think
28:40as much as
28:41for the BJP,
28:42tonight,
28:43biggest takeaway
28:44is for Tejas
28:45Svi Yadar.
28:46It is for him
28:47to decide
28:48whether he
28:49will continue
28:49in the opposition
28:50space and
28:50for how long
28:51and can he
28:52continue to
28:53cede the
28:54opposition space
28:55also to
28:56someone who
28:57is now coming
28:57up with an
28:58alternative narrative.
29:00Sanjay Kumar,
29:01Sajjan Kumar,
29:01really appreciate
29:02your time.
29:02Thank you so
29:03much for joining
29:03us.
29:05That's all from
29:05me on this
29:06edition of
29:06New Strath.
29:07Thanks so much
29:07for watching.
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