Jan Suraaj Party launches crowdfunding app to fight polls, says HC moved in Rs 70,000 cr graft case

The Jan Suraaj Party, founded by former election strategist Prashant Kishor, on Wednesday launched a crowdfunding campaign to fight the Bihar assembly elections due to be held next month.

The party’s national president Uday Singh also claimed that the party had approached the High Court, accusing the NDA government in Bihar of being involved in corruption amounting to ₹70,000 billion.

Launching the Jan Suraaj Contribution app at a press conference in Patna, Singh said people are keen to contribute “to the rise” of the party.

“People can now contribute from ₹100 to ₹50,000 through the app, available in Hindi and English,” he said.

Jan Suraaj Paty constantly exposes corrupt ministers in the NDA government, Singh alleged.

“We have knocked on the doors of the High Court in a corruption case involving an unaccounted sum of Rs 70,000 crore. The officials of the Bihar government have gobbled up this sum,” he claimed.

Party general secretary Kishor Kumar Munna accused Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chowdhary of being involved in an alleged incident of rape and murder in July 1999, when the RJD was in power in Bihar.

“Days after the incident, Samrat Choudhary’s father Shakuni Choudhary was inducted into the ruling RJD. Was this done to evade investigations against Samrat Choudhary? The Deputy CM must clarify his stand on this,” Singh said.

On allegations of corruption involving ₹To the tune of 70,000 crore, party leader and senior lawyer YV Giri demanded a CBI probe into the matter.

“Usually, officials who withdraw money from the Treasury must present a certificate of use. But in the case in question, there was hardly any,” Giri said.

He claimed that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had ignored the matter, adding that “Lalu Yadav’s case, in which many people were indicted and sent to jail, involved a sum of around ₹950 crore only, but in the present case, which is much more massive, no action is being taken.