New Delhi: They were the two high-profile young leaders who made announcements of fighting the Bihar Assembly elections, but LJP(RV)’s Chirag Paswan and Jan Suraaj Party’s Prashant Kishor chose not to enter the fray at the last minute so as not to upset their respective apple carts.

Paswan (42) and Kishor (47) consider themselves chief ministerial material with a high-pitch ‘Bihar first’ campaign, and both put Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Lalu-Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD on their hitlist for advancing their political journey.

Paswan nurses chief ministerial aspirations as he sees some space to occupy, with Nitish and Lalu, who dominated Bihar for the past around 35 years, entering the last leg of their political life. Kishor also sees a possible vacuum and believes he could be a challenger to Tejas

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