By-poll to the seat was necessitated by the death of MLA Musafir Paswan, who had won on the ticket of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) of Bollywood set designer-turned-politician Mukesh Sahani.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers during a party meeting on Saturday opposed Baby Kumari, the party s candidate for the upcoming bypoll in Bihar Assembly constituency Bochaha and protested in front of the state BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal.
After last week’s budget session, Nitish told the reporters that he has never been a Rajya Sabha MP, which led to speculation of him joining the Upper House. However, the Bihar CM dismissed the reports.