On August 3, 2026, Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor pulled off his first-ever electoral win, defeating BJP's Neeraj Kumar Sinha in the Bankipur by-election by a margin of 18,953 votes flipping a seat the BJP had held comfortably since 2010, including a nearly 52,000-vote victory just nine months earlier in the November 2025 Assembly polls. The result came even as voter turnout d... https://www.parcharmanch.com/blog/bankipur-bypoll-result-warning-for-bjp