India, Oct. 23 -- "I had been waiting for this moment for three and a half long years," said a charged Mukesh Sahani, the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) chief, moments after being declared the deputy chief minister nominee of the Mahagathbandhan for the 2025 Bihar assembly election.

Once a BJP ally, Sahani is now bestowed with the responsibility of steering the alliance's boat with RJD's Tejashwi Yadav at the helm. After the announcement on Thursday at a joint presser, Sahani took an oath that, "BJP ko jab tak hum todenge nahi, tab tak chhoddenge nahi. (We will not let go until we break the BJP)."

He has accused the saffron party of "splitting" his party and "luring away" its MLAs.

"BJP broke our party and poached our MLAs. At that time...