Two former MPs resign fromcore committee of Jan Suraaj | Patna News – Times of India
Patna: Two former MPs – Devendra Prasad Yadav and Monazir Hasan – resigned from the 125-member core committee of Prashant Kishor‘s Jan Suraaj party, citing “unavoidable reasons.” The core committee, formed just on Sunday, was meant to strategise for the upcoming assembly elections next year.
“I am resigning from the 125-member core committee due to unavoidable reasons,” said former Union minister Yadav in his resignation letter addressed to acting party president Manoj Bharti.
Monazir Hasan, a former minister in the Nitish Kumar govt, also resigned but sent his letter directly to Kishor instead of the president. However, Hasan clarified that he would remain with the party. “I thank the party for giving me a place in the core committee, but I won’t continue there. So, my resignation may kindly be accepted,” Hasan wrote in his letter.
Party insiders said both netas were upset with how they were grouped with relatively new and inexperienced members in the expanded committee. Sources close to them suggested dissatisfaction with Kishor’s leadership style, which they believed undermined their stature as senior leaders.
Commenting on the resignations, the party’s national spokesperson Sadaf Iqbal said the leaders have stepped down only from the core committee, not the party. “They have some objections over the size and structure of the core committee and have conveyed their concerns to Kishor,” she said.
The resignations follow Jan Suraaj’s poor performance in recent byelections, where the party lost all four assembly seats, including Tarari and Belaganj, and also the Tirhut graduates’ constituency for the Bihar legislative council, despite finishing as runner-up in the latter.
Kishor launched Jan Suraaj on October 2, following a two-year, 3,000-km-long ‘padayatra’ across the state. The journey, which began in Champaran, was aimed at building a “new political alternative” to address Bihar’s chronic challenges of underdevelopment. The party has announced its intent to contest all 243 assembly seats in the state in the upcoming elections.
“I am resigning from the 125-member core committee due to unavoidable reasons,” said former Union minister Yadav in his resignation letter addressed to acting party president Manoj Bharti.
Monazir Hasan, a former minister in the Nitish Kumar govt, also resigned but sent his letter directly to Kishor instead of the president. However, Hasan clarified that he would remain with the party. “I thank the party for giving me a place in the core committee, but I won’t continue there. So, my resignation may kindly be accepted,” Hasan wrote in his letter.
Party insiders said both netas were upset with how they were grouped with relatively new and inexperienced members in the expanded committee. Sources close to them suggested dissatisfaction with Kishor’s leadership style, which they believed undermined their stature as senior leaders.
Commenting on the resignations, the party’s national spokesperson Sadaf Iqbal said the leaders have stepped down only from the core committee, not the party. “They have some objections over the size and structure of the core committee and have conveyed their concerns to Kishor,” she said.
The resignations follow Jan Suraaj’s poor performance in recent byelections, where the party lost all four assembly seats, including Tarari and Belaganj, and also the Tirhut graduates’ constituency for the Bihar legislative council, despite finishing as runner-up in the latter.
Kishor launched Jan Suraaj on October 2, following a two-year, 3,000-km-long ‘padayatra’ across the state. The journey, which began in Champaran, was aimed at building a “new political alternative” to address Bihar’s chronic challenges of underdevelopment. The party has announced its intent to contest all 243 assembly seats in the state in the upcoming elections.
