Political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj stuck to caste formula, but also added elements of professionalism and freshness of faces as the party on Thursday announced its first list of 51 candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections.

Though Jan Suraaj founder Kishor’s name was not on the list, party’s national president Uday Singh said he would hit the campaign trail on October 11 from Raghopur, a seat represented by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.

Former Deputy CM Tejashwi, meanwhile, announced that if the RJD-Congress Mahagathbandhan won, it would “bring an Act within 20 days of coming to power” to ensure at least one member of every family in the state had a government job. “I will end the problem of unemployment in Bihar,” Tejashwi said at a hurriedly convened pre

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