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Prashant Kishor’s protest runs into police wall 2 kms from Bihar assembly
Slogans of "Nitish Kumar hosh me aao (Nitish, come to your senses)" and "Nitish Kumar murdabad (down with Nitish Kumar)" rang loud during the protest before it was dispersed.
Written by Santosh Singh
Patna | Updated: July 23, 2025 10:06 PM IST
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Kishor had started the protest march from his Shekhpura house along Bailey Road. (Express photo by Rahul Sharma)Three workers of Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party were injured as police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse a protest march outside the Bihar Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.
Though Kishor, who was leading a march to the House for the first time since he founded the party in October 2024, was stopped almost two kilometres away from the Vidhan Sabha, he succeeded in making his presence felt, daring police to hit him and saying that officers had no right to use lathi charge on a peaceful demonstration.
Slogans of “Nitish Kumar hosh me aao (Nitish, come to your senses)” and “Nitish Kumar murdabad (down with Nitish Kumar)” rang loud during the protest before it was dispersed. The week-long monsoon session of Assembly, the last session before 2025 polls, concludes this Friday.
Kishor had started the protest march from his Shekhpura house along Bailey Road. The Vidhan Sabha is five kilometres away.
He has been demanding that the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government fulfil its promises, such as giving Rs 2 lakh each to 94 lakh poor families, distribution of three decimal land to each Mahadalit family, and completion of the land survey. “We are only reminding CM of his old promises,” he said.
Later, JSP state president Manoj Kumar Bharti led a team to meet state chief secretary Amrit Lal Meena to put forth the party’s demands. JSP has set a deadline of a week to implement its promises, failing which the party would resume the protest.
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