Prashant Kishor, the Jan Suraaj chief, has won the Bankipur bypoll by a margin of over 18,000 votes against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Neeraj Kumar Sinha and Rashtriya Janata Dal's Rekha Kumari.
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The bypoll was necessitated after BJP national president Nitin Nabin vacated the seat following his election to the Rajya Sabha this year. The seat had been a BJP bastion since 1995.