Meet Manoj Bharti, IIT Graduate And Former Diplomat Appointed As Working President Of Prashant Kishor's Party

A retired diplomat and IIT graduate has been appointed as the working president of the newly formed Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), founded by election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor. Manoj Bharti, chosen by Prashant Kishor as a key member of the Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), hails from Madhubani in Bihar and holds a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an MTech from IIT Delhi.Notably, Prashant Kishor formally launched his political party in Patna today, a much-anticipated move by which he hopes to take the political landscape in Bihar by storm.Bharti has also served in the foreign service. He was India's ambassador in Ukraine, Belarus, Timor-Leste, and Indonesia.Bharti, in his LinkedIn profile, briefly highlighted his last posting in Indonesia, where he managed the visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 13 ministers as part of the Group of 20 (G20), focusing on strengthening cooperation in defence, security, and education.Prashant Kishor launched the party at Veterinary College Ground in the state capital in the presence of many renowned figures, including former Union minister Devendra Prasad Yadav, diplomat-turned-politician Pavan Varma and ex-MP Monazir Hassan.The party was floated exactly two years after Kishor had embarked on a more than 3,000-km-long 'padayatra' of the state, from Champaran where Mahatma Gandhi had launched the first Satyagraha in the country, in a bid to mobilise the people for a "new political alternative" that could cure Bihar of its chronic backwardness.Speaking on the occasion, the I-PAC founder who gave up political consultancy a few years ago, said, "Jan Suraaj has been a campaign aimed at making the people of Bihar understand that they have not been able to get quality education and job opportunities because they have never voted on these issues. We may be mocked by cynics, who will say how will we fulfil promises like putting an end to migration. But we have a blueprint."