Patna

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor and BJP's Neeraj Kumar Sinha on Monday filed their nomination papers for the bypoll to Bankipur assembly seat in Bihar.

Kishor, who seeks to wrest the BJP bastion vacated by its national president Nitin Nabin a couple of months ago, was accompanied by his wife Jahnavi Das, a medical practitioner from Assam.

Das shuns the limelight but chose to be by the side of her husband, who is making his political debut.

The IPAC founder, who had floated his party about a couple of years ago, reached the collectorate in a huge procession that began at the crowded Dak Bungalow crossing, about a kilometre away.

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On the other hand, BJP heavyweights like local MP Ravi Shankar Prasad and state president Sanjay Saraogi accompanied Sinha, a 32-year-old Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader, who was hurriedly roped in after Abhishek Kumar "Bunty" pulled himself out of the electoral contest.

Abhishek had filed nomination papers last week only to pull out later citing "family reasons".