Jan Suraaj Party leader Prashant Kishor addresses media in Patna on Monday (April 21, 2025).
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Jan Suraaj leader Prashant Kishor on Monday (April 21, 2025) threatened to launch an agitation against the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Bihar if his three demands including a white paper on the caste-based-survey are not fulfilled. Attacking the government over the caste-based survey, Mr. Kishor said that the intent of any party that initiates a caste survey while in government is not to develop society but to create caste hysteria to serve their political ends.

Addressing the media in Patna, he explained that caste data was tabled in the Assembly on November 7, 2023 and Mr. Kumar had made five major announcements in the Assembly on November 22, 2023.

“What happened to the announcement of increasing the reservation limit? Nitish Kumar should explain that if he has a government in the Center and the State, then why was the reservation limit not increased? What happened to the announcement that 94 lakh families will be given assistance of ₹2 lakh for employment?” Mr. Kishor asked.

Mr. Kishor said that Jan Suraaj has come to know that not even one rupee has been given to any family so far. Mr. Kishor asked whether the announcement made by Mr. Kumar was also a slogan like Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan of ₹15 lakh in everyone’s bank account.

The third demand was the promise to provide financial assistance of ₹1. 2 lakh to 40 lakh homeless people to have a home for themselves. He said the government should explain how much assistance has been given to them. “We demand from the government that they present a white paper on the caste-based survey,” Mr. Kishor said.

He said that Mr. Kumar’s government had formed the Mahadalit Vikas Mission in 2006 under which it was announced that 3 decimal land would be given to landless Dalit families. “Till 2025, only 2.34 lakh families have been given land and, in that too, according to the report of the Deshpal Committee, 1.2 lakh families have got land but they are deprived of basic facilities,” Mr. Kishor said.

Raising questions on the ongoing land survey, he claimed that there is a dispute in every house and land survey is the main reason for increasing crime rate and corruption in Bihar. Mr. Kishor said, “The land survey started in 2013 and, till February 2025, only 17.30 lakh acres of land have been digitized, which is only 20%of the total land.”

He added, “States like Andhra Pradesh, which started a land survey after Bihar, have digitized 80% of the land so far. In Bihar, there is a fight in every house in the name of land survey and a bribe of ₹25 to ₹50 lakh is being given to remain in the post of Circle Officer (CO).”

Mr. Kishor said that his party has decided that from May 11, 2025, it will hold meetings in 40,000 villages and run a signature campaign on these issues.

Accompanied by Manoj Bharti, State President of the party, Mr. Kishor announced that on July 11, a memorandum will be submitted to the Chief Minister and the Governor over these issues with the signatures of 1 crore people.