PATNA: Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor on Tuesday broke his silence on his party’s debacle in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly elections, taking full responsibility for its poor performance.

In his first reaction since the announcement of the poll results on 14 November, Kishor said that although his team had made honest and sincere efforts, they had failed to convince people of the party’s ideology and policies. “We failed to convince people what we meant for them. So, they voted in favour of the NDA,” he told the media.

The Jan Suraaj Party contested 238 seats but failed to win a single one, securing just 3.44 per cent of the vote share. In 68 constituencies, the JSP even received fewer votes than NOTA. While three candidates withdrew their nominations, one extende

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