Zillar Barta Desk,Patna: Jan Suraaj founder and Bankipur MLA Prashant Kishor has appealed to Bihar’s youth, teachers and graduate voters to support his party’s candidates in the upcoming Legislative Council elections, placing employment, education and teachers’ pay among the key issues of his campaign.
Addressing gatherings in Bihar, Kishor said Jan Suraaj’s political agenda would focus on creating employment opportunities for educated young people and addressing long-standing concerns in the education sector. His latest campaign has particularly targeted teachers and graduate voters, with promises linked to jobs and implementation of the 7th Pay Commission for teachers.
Kishor has claimed that if Jan Suraaj-backed candidates receive support from voters, the party would take responsibility for helping educated unemployed youth secure employment. In an earlier announcement, he said Jan Suraaj would work to provide 10,000 jobs to educated unemployed youths in constituencies where its candidates win.
The Jan Suraaj leader has also sought to make teachers’ demands a central part of his campaign. At a teacher dialogue programme in Muzaffarpur, Kishor said it was the party’s commitment to ensure the 7th Pay Commission pay scale for teachers across different categories before the next Lok Sabha election. He also spoke about resolving the longstanding issues of teachers working in institutions without regular financial support.
Kishor argued that Bihar’s teaching community faces problems because teachers are divided into several categories, including financially unsupported, appointed, specialised, school and guest teachers. According to his campaign statement, Jan Suraaj would seek a common framework for their service and salary-related concerns.
Another issue raised by Kishor was the deployment of teachers for non-academic duties. He said a state-level standard should be established so that teachers are not assigned non-teaching responsibilities arbitrarily by officials at the district level. He presented this as part of a broader effort to improve the working environment in Bihar’s education system.
In Saran, Kishor campaigned for Jan Suraaj-backed candidate Afaque Ahmed, who filed his nomination for the Saran Teachers’ Constituency. Speaking at a gathering following the nomination, Kishor appealed to teachers and voters to support Ahmed and reiterated the promise concerning the 7th Pay Commission.
The employment issue has also featured prominently in Kishor’s political messaging. Earlier, after his election as the Bankipur MLA, he announced plans to facilitate private employment opportunities for at least 10,000 youths from the constituency over a two-year period. He said his national network would be used to connect qualified young people with employment opportunities both inside and outside Bihar.
Kishor has repeatedly argued that unemployment and migration are among the major challenges facing Bihar. His political messaging has sought to place jobs, better government schools and improved economic opportunities at the centre of the state’s development debate. Following his Bankipur victory, he said Bihar needed leadership capable of creating jobs, improving education and reducing migration.
The latest campaign has also become part of a broader political contest surrounding the Bihar Legislative Council’s teacher and graduate constituencies. Kishor has urged voters to judge candidates on issues such as employment, education and governance rather than relying only on traditional political considerations.
Kishor has simultaneously criticised established political parties over what he describes as the continued dominance of caste, religion and fear in Bihar politics. These are political claims made by Kishor as part of his campaign, rather than independently established assessments.
For Bihar’s young voters, however, employment remains one of the most significant issues in the political debate. Kishor’s latest appeal attempts to connect Jan Suraaj directly with this concern by promising employment opportunities for educated youth and presenting the party as a platform for changes in education and government administration.
The focus on teachers and the 7th Pay Commission also gives the Jan Suraaj campaign a specific constituency among education-sector voters. With teacher and graduate seats in the Legislative Council becoming an important electoral battleground, Kishor is seeking to turn long-standing demands over salaries, employment and working conditions into political support for his candidates.
Kishor has maintained that Jan Suraaj’s objective is not limited to winning elections or holding political office, but to push for changes in Bihar’s governance and public institutions. Whether the party’s promises translate into electoral support will depend on the response of teachers, graduates and young voters as the Legislative Council election campaign progresses.
Overall, jobs for educated youth, better government education and improved pay and service conditions for teachers have emerged as key themes in Prashant Kishor’s latest outreach. His appeal to Bihar’s youth reflects Jan Suraaj’s attempt to build its political campaign around employment and education while challenging the state’s established political forces.
