patna impressed by the padyatra undertaken by poll strategistturnedpolitician prashant kishor pk six retired ias officers on tuesday joined his jan suraaj abhiyan jsa at its state headquarters here and committed to giving a better bihar to the peoplethose who joined the jsa in the presence of retired ips officer rakesh kumar mishra included ajay kumar dwivedi west champaran arwind kumar singh bhojpur lalan yadav munger tulsi hajara east champaran suresh sharma gopalganj and gopal narayan singh aurangabadin their separate brief deliberations they praised kishor for launching a direct contact with people to mark popular participation in the campaign which no political party has donemishra said kishor has been working with declared purpose to give a beautiful rule to the state at a time when there are two competing ideologies in power in the country including bihar both playing their 2020 political game for mass mobilisation by slicing away 20 of the people in contrast the jsa believes in taking along with it 100 per cent of the population mishra saidmishra said the six retired ias officers have joined on the first resolution day of the jsa as kishor had announced it on may 2 last year he said 100 meritorious girl students have been selected through a rigorous process for giving them merit scholarship worth a fixed sum to be held at patna on may 5 he said 85000 girl students had made online registration and 49569 were shortlisted while 13000 took the online test finally 100 girl students were selected on the basis of interview for merit scholarship