With Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announcing that it will field candidates in all 243 seats in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, there are speculations that the surprise move was intended to contain Jan Suraaj, the fledgling party floated by political strategist Prashant Kishor.

The main reason for speculations pegging AAP against Jan Suraaj arise from the fact that Prashant Kishor projects himself as an alternative to the traditional rivals JDU-BJP and RJD-Congress alliances. This was the same political strategy used by AAP since 2014 as they introduced themselves as a third alternative in bipolar contests in Delhi as well as Punjab, Haryana and Goa.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal has been cooperating with Arvind Kejriwal thus far and did not contest in the Delhi assembly elections even as JDU

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