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NDA Pulls Ahead in Bihar Count as Mukesh Sahani’s VIP Struggles for Leads

The party’s weak showing undercuts Tejashwi Yadav’s bid to elevate Sahani as deputy chief minister.

Sahani’s plunge into politics started out in 2013 when supported the BJP and the then-Prime Minister candidate Narendra Modi, even sharing stage with him after his election to the post, during the 2015 Bihar assembly polls.

Overview

  • Election Commission figures cited earlier showed VIP ahead in just one seat, and a later IANS update said the party had no leads by mid‑afternoon.
  • Hindustan Times reported the NDA opening a comfortable advantage during counting, and IANS later put the alliance ahead in 209 seats in trend data.
  • Reports differ on VIP’s footprint, with one account saying it contested 18 seats and another saying 15, complicating assessments of the scale of its losses.
  • Mukesh Sahani’s brother Santosh trailed BJP’s Sujit Kumar in Gaura Bauram by several thousand votes in early rounds, reflecting the party’s broader slide.
  • Analysts quoted in coverage linked VIP’s performance to voter dynamics, including discontent over the deputy‑CM projection and shifts among Muslim voters to NDA partners or smaller parties.