‘People reject you and you use judicial platform to gain popularity’: SC condemns Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj’s plea over Bihar polls | India News

New Delhi: Supreme Court Declined to entertain petition filed on Friday Prashant KishoreJan Suraaj Party challenges the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. A bench comprising CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi declined to issue any direction on the plea seeking to annul the election results and order re-polls. “How many votes did your party get? People reject you and then you use the judicial platform to gain support,” the CJI observed, PTI reported.“We cannot issue comprehensive instructions for the entire country even in the context of political parties,” the CJI added.The Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) has filed a case in the Supreme Court seeking re-election after alleging that the Bihar government violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by transferring Rs 10,000 to women beneficiaries under the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana after the election schedule was announced. The party claimed the move amounted to corruption and disrupted a level playing field.The scheme provides an initial financial grant of Rs 10,000 to women to promote self-employment and small enterprises. The petition alleged that the debt-ridden country violated Article 324 of the Constitution and Article 123 of the Representation of the People Act by disbursing Rs 15,600 crore on the eve of polls to influence voters.The bench, however, said it would not entertain the writ petition on the issue and asked the party to approach the Patna High Court as the matter related to a state.The Bharatiya Janata Party-led New Democratic Alliance retained power in the 243-seat parliament, winning 202 seats, while the Bloc India secured 35 seats. The Jan Suraaj Party failed to win a single seat and most of its candidates had their deposits forfeited.