All three Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) legislators late on Wednesday night joined the BJP in Bihar. In the Assembly elections in 2020, four VIP MLAs had won the poll and one of them, Musafir Paswan from Bochaha (Muzaffarpur), had died in November 2021.
With the three VIP MLAs in its kitty, the BJP has now become the largest party with 77 MLAs in the Assembly. The RJD with 75 legislators has come to the second position. The JD(U) has 45 MLAs, the Congress 19 and the Lefts parties have 15 MLAs.
The VIP is led by Mukesh Sahani who had fielded 57 candidates against the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll. He has also put up a candidate Geeta Devi against BJP’s Baby Kumari in the Bochaha Assembly bypoll scheduled to take place on April 12.
