Bihar bypoll | Vikassheel Insaan Party to pit candidate against ally BJP in Bochaha
The Hindu
Bochaha seat fell vacant after death of VIP MLA Musafir Paswan in 2021
After pitting candidates against alliance partner BJP on 57 seats in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) led by ‘Son of Mallah’ Mukesh Sahani will once again challenge the national party in the Bochaha Assembly bypoll in north Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, scheduled to be held on April 12 and the result for which will be announced on April 16.
The VIP, though, failed to win a single seat in the U.P. Assembly election.
Along with the JD(U) and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), the VIP is ruling alliance partner of the BJP in Bihar. The Bochaha seat fell vacant after the death of VIP MLA Musafir Paswan in November 2021.
Earlier, the VIP had named Amar Paswan, son of the late Musafir Paswan, as party candidate in Bochaha, but he switched over to the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal and announced that he would contest the bypoll on RJD ticket.
Stung by Mr. Paswan’s sudden move, the VIP later announced Geeta Devi, daughter of nine-time MLA from Bochaha Ramai Ram, as the party candidate. The BJP has already announced Baby Kumari as its candidate.
Ms. Kumari won the seat in the 2015 Assembly poll as an Independent but later joined the BJP. Under the NDA alliance, the Bochaha seat had gone to the VIP in the 2020 Assembly poll and Mr. Musafir Paswan won the poll.
The VIP had won four seats in the 243-seat Assembly and supported the NDA to form the government in Bihar. The party currently has three MLAs, and the magic figure required to form government in the State is 122. Mr. Sahani is Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister in the NDA government in Bihar.
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