The Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) led by Mukesh Sahani drew a blank in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly elections in which he contested 12 seats backed by Mahagathbandhan partners, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress. Though the party has been struggling to establish a solid base in Bihar in the successive elections from the past eight years, the 2025 assembly polls was different. It has earned him pan Bihar visibility.

It was Rahul Gandhi’s “vote chori yatra” before the elections which carried Sahani in almost every rally and every public meeting. The alliance partners made sure that he gets mentioned and projected as a face of fishermen community which has traditionally been voting for the NDA. It was a well-designed strategy to tap the ethnic-based political sentiment of the state’s

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