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.