The ongoing tussle in the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) regarding the Bihar Legislative Council elections for the last several days has now started taking the form of rebellion. Mukesh Sahni, Minister of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Department in the Government of Bihar and National President of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), has fielded his 7 candidates against BJP.
Mukesh Sahni had fielded 53 candidates of his party in the 2022 UP assembly elections as well. Now he is giving open challenge to BJP in Bihar. Seeing the rebellious attitude of Mukesh Sahni, the attitude of the BJP leaders is also now seen to be bitter. BJP MLA Hari Bhushan Thakur said that the party’s central leadership is angry with Mukesh Sahni and Mukesh Sahni should now show the way out of the cabinet. Hari Bhushan Thakur said that Home Minister Amit Shah would soon take a decision in this regard.
Elections are being held on 24 seats of Bihar Legislative Council from local body quota. VIP has announced support to NDA in 15 seats. Of the seats where VIPs have declared their support, 11 belong to JDU. The VIP has also announced support to BJP in three seats, while it was decided to support RLJP (Lok Janshakti Party- Ram Vilas) in one seat and on nine seats the VIP himself will contest.
VIP has finalized the candidates on 7 of these seats and announced their names. Among the declared candidates, Adarsh Kumar from Samastipur, Jai Ram Sahni from Begusarai-Khagaria, Chandan Kumar from Saharsa-Madhepura-Supaul, Balmukund Chauhan from Saran, while Govind Bind from Rohtas-Kaimur, Shyamanand Singh from Purnia, Araria. And Kishanganj, Baidyanath Sahni has been made candidate from Darbhanga. BJP has already fielded candidates on all the 7 seats where VIP announced the names of the candidates.
VIP’s national spokesperson Dev Jyoti said the party would soon announce the candidate for two more seats. In the remaining 15 seats, VIPs have announced their support to the NDA candidates.