Vikas Human Party (VIP) president and former minister Mukesh Sahni, who demanded 60 seats in the Bihar assembly elections, has left the meeting of the grand alliance called on Wednesday at the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav.
The party’s state president Balgovind Bind has attended the meeting of the coordination committee of the Grand Alliance. Mukesh Sahni is asking for 60 consecutive seats and saying that even if you get a little less seat. It is difficult for Mukesh Sahni to find a little less seat in the Grand Alliance. Sahni told Live Hindustan during an interview in Delhi today that the information of the meeting came at night and by then he had left for Delhi, so the state president has gone.
Two days ago, Mukesh Sahni shared two agenda of the party on social media. In the first agenda, Sahni wrote- “Developing human party will contest 60 seats, candidates of allies will contest the remaining seats.” In the second agenda, Sahni said- “The party has taken a historic decision for the assembly elections and announced that the candidates of the most backward class and SC-ST society will field in 50% seats.… VIP has been committed to leading the communities that have been denied power for decades.”
In the 2020 assembly elections in Bihar, Mukesh Sahni came out on the last occasion from the grand alliance on the issue of seat sharing. Sahni, who got up from Tejashwi Yadav’s press conference, later joined the NDA, where he got 11 seats from the BJP quota. Sahni’s 4 MLAs won and he also became a minister. But he found it expensive to contest 2022 elections against BJP in many seats in UP. CM Nitish Kumar dismissed Sahni from the government. The BJP included three of his MLAs in their party. Since then, Sahni has been running with opposition parties.
Interesting political developments are going on in Bihar about Mukesh Sahni. The NDA leaders have started calling him back. Santosh Kumar Suman, son of Hindustani Awam Morcha (Hum) leader and Union Minister Jeetan Ram Manjhi and Minister in Nitish government, has said today that Tejashwi will not give 60 seats to Sahni, so it is better that he return to NDA. Santosh Suman has said that Sahni society is also with NDA.