Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) alleged that its former national vice president Prashant Kishor was working "on behalf of the BJP" and questioned the source of funding for his much publicised 'Jan Suraaj' campaign.

JD(U) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan also berated Kishor's statewide "pada yatra" and fulminated against his refrain that Bihar remains a laggard despite over a decade of Kumar's claim of good governance.