Patna- Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Friday claimed that migrants from Bihar, who returned home for Chhath festivities and have not yet gone back to their places of work, are the “X factor” in the assembly polls.

The former political strategist, whose fledgling party is said to have caught the imagination of “pravasis”, according to various surveys and opinion polls, made the claim a day after the first phase of voting registered a record 64.66 per cent turnout.

“The highest voter turnout since Independence confirms what we have always been saying – there is a very strong yearning for change in Bihar where the people have been caught in a political rut for about 30 years,” said Kishor.

He claimed that the people now had a glimmer of hope with his one-year-old party emergin

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