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9.6 Million Subscribers on YouTube, but Lost as MLA

There are certain times when people overestimate their capabilities and mistake social media hype, and attention for ground reality. A similar scenario was observed in the recent Bihar election.

YouTuber, who is very popular with as many as 9.6 million subscribers on this leading video streaming platform congested in Bihar only to end up in the distance, third position.

The popular YouTuber in discussion here is Manish Kashyap who contested on Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj Party ticket ended up trailing well behind the Congress and BJP candidates. 

This popular YouTuber and elaborate campaign on social media and projected himself as the next big thing. Subsequently, even Prashanth Kishore was impressed with him and gave him the MLA ticket from JSP’s behalf. 

But it turned out to be that this popular YouTuber could not generate much impact amongst the public as he lost the election. But the interesting thing here is that he was able to generate as many as 37,000 votes in his favor which isn’t the worst result in a way. But in the overall election, he lost by a margin of over 50,000 votes.

This post was last modified on 15 November 2025 9:49 am

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