BJP bastion in Bihar breached: 5 key takeaways from Kishor's big Bankipur win

NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor on Monday won the Bankipur assembly bypoll, defeating BJP candidate Neeraj Kumar by 19,324 votes after securing 64,151 votes, marking the first electoral victory of his political career.The bypoll, necessitated after BJP national president Nitin Nabin vacated the seat following his election to the Rajya Sabha, turned into much more than a contest for a single constituency. Bankipur had remained one of the BJP's safest urban seats for over two decades, with Nabin winning it four consecutive times by comfortable margins.Kishor's victory in the BJP's long-held bastion is likely to be seen as one of the biggest political upsets in Bihar after the assembly elections defeat. BJP's Neeraj Kumar secured 44,827 votes, while RJD candidate Rekha Kumari finished a distant third with 14,273 votes.(function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(message,function(e){if(e.data[datawrapper-height]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(iframe);for(var n in e.data[datawrapper-height])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[datawrapper-height][n]+px;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})();Here are the five biggest takeaways from the Bankipur bypoll:1.