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Poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor has alleged that three candidates of his Jan Suraaj Party in the Bihar elections withdrew their nominations under “pressure” from the BJP.
Addressing a press conference according to variopus media reports , Kishor alleged that the ruling NDA was so scared of losing the elections that it was threatening opposition candidates to withdraw from the race.
“Democracy is being murdered. There has been no such precedent in the country,” he alleged, urging the Election Commission to ensure the security of the candidates.
The candidates who withdrew from the race were fielded in the Danapur, Brahampur, and Gopalganj seats, he said.
“The BJP is trying to replicate the Surat model, in which their candidate got elected unopposed, as all other nominees were coerced to pull out. The BJP does not realise that voters had punished it across the country for it, and it won just 240 seats, though it had bragged that the tally would be 400-plus in last year’s Lok Sabha polls,” he added.
