Prashant Kishor winning Bankipur is a massive development in Bihar politics, perhaps even national politics.
Why? Four reasons.
It is the Assembly constituency of BJP's national president Nitin Nabin, who has won this seat four times until he vacated it earlier this year to enter the Rajya Sabha. He had first won from the area in 2006, when it was Patna West before delimitation. The seat was represented by his father four times before.
Bankipur has been one of the BJP's strongest seats in Bihar. With the seat's present boundaries, BJP's lowest vote share in the constituency has been 59 percent in 2020. It has consistently won the seat with massive margins, its lowest being as high as 29 percentage points. Hugely dominated by 'upper castes', for the BJP, this seat is considered as safe as some seats in urban Gujarat. Its vote share has reduced by over 25 percentage points.
This was the BJP's first electoral battle after it installed its first chief minister in the state - Samrat Chaudhary - after sidelining ally Nitish Kumar.
This is Prashant Kishor's first win as a politician. He will now be in the Bihar Assembly as a prominent Opposition voice.