Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor is eyeing to make a solid entry in Bihar politics by winning the Bankipur seat in a bypoll elections. The seat has been vacated by the BJP’s Nitin Nabin, who got elected to the Rajya Sabha as he moved to Delhi to become the national president of the party.

Debangshu Panda received 1,49,666 votes, cruising past Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sambhu Nath Kurmi, who got 40,645 votes. Congress candidate Abdur Razzak Molla finished third with just over 10,000 votes.

Five people have been killed by lightning in Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Golaghat and Dibrugarh districts of Assam in the past three days, officials said on Sunday.