Patna: prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party has alleged that the bihar government, led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, diverted Rs 14,000 crore from a World Bank fund for the 2025 assembly elections.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, following the Jan Suraaj party’s unsuccessful debut election, national president Uday Singh stated the funds were “diverted for doles and freebies.”
“As June, until the polls were announced, Rs 40,000 crore was spent” by the Nitish Kumar government to “purchase” votes through public money, he said.
“the scale was unprecedented. Even Rs 14,000 crore of the loan they received from the World bank has been diverted for doles and freebies,” he alleged.
बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव 2025 के नतीजों पर जन सुराज के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष उदय सिंह जी का बयान!! pic.twitter.com/RgJ0PDLk5Y
– Jan Suraaj (@jansuraajonline) November 15, 2025
Referring to the ‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar yojana’, where Rs 10,000 was transferred to women’s bank accounts before the elections, he said, “It must have been the first time people kept receiving money until a day before voting, despite the model code of conduct. This was enough to sway women who may have been hand-to-mouth.”
He stated the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which retained power in Bihar, would have been defeated had public money not been “spent to buy votes.”
“Please remember that it was not until the Jan Suraaj Party promised Rs 2,000 old age pension that the government raised the amount from Rs 700 to Rs 1,100 per month,” Singh said.
He also said a section of Jan Suraaj Party voters supported the NDA “out of fear of the return of jungle raj under the RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal).”