Bihar Elections 2025: Prashant Kishor Appoints Former BJP MP Uday Singh As Jan Suraaj Party's First National President

Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections 2025, Prashant Kishor announces Uday Singh as the Jan Suraaj Party's National President.

Updated on: 19 May 2025 5:59 pm

Poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor Photo: PTI

Ahead of the Bihar assembly election, Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor names former BJP MP Uday Singh its first national president.

Addressing a press conference in Patna, Kishor said he will now focus on public relations and hand over the responsibility of running the organisation to people like Uday Singh and RCP Singh, who joined the party on Sunday.

"I can now resume my ‘padayatra’ in Bihar from tomorrow," he said.

"Uday Singh, known to be providing logistical support to the party, was "chosen, not by a mere majority, but unanimously" by a committee set up for the purpose," Kishor asserts.

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Uday Singh has been a BJP MP from Purnia Lok Sabha seat twice. In 2019, Uday left the Bharatiya Janata Party and joined Congress.

Jan Suraj Party

The Jan Suraj Party, formed on October 2 last year, has been functioning without a full-time president since then. Prashant Kishor has made it clear that he will not hold any post, but soon after the party was formed, former IPS officer Manoj Bharti was made the "working president".