Patna: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Monday, August 3, established an unassailable lead in Bihar’s Bankipur assembly constituency, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastion where a bypoll was necessitated after its president Nitin Nabin vacated the seat. Kishor, a celebrated poll strategist who made his electoral debut, had established a lead from the very first round over his BJP rival Neeraj Kumar Sinha. Kishor was ahead by 15,864 votes after 26 of 31 rounds of counting. Jubilations erupted in the Jan Suraaj Party camp, replacing the dejection that had set in after the fledgling outfit drew a blank in Assembly elections held in November last year. “The verdict in Bankipur must be viewed in the backdrop of the wider dissatisfaction with the BJP which recently got reflected in the students’ protests.