Overview
- Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) won 19 of the 29 seats it contested in the recent Bihar assembly elections, strengthening Paswan’s leverage in the state.
- Paswan made his acting debut opposite Kangana Ranaut in the 2014 film Miley Naa Miley Hum, which earned about Rs 97 lakh worldwide and ended his film aspirations.
- He says he realized he was “a disaster” at acting and returned to Bihar to pursue politics with a focus on defending Bihari identity.
- Now Union Minister of Food Processing Industries and MP from Hajipur, Paswan rose within the party after the 2020 death of his father, Ram Vilas Paswan.
- He credits the film with forging a lasting friendship with Kangana Ranaut, and the two later reconnected as fellow MPs.