Chirag Paswan left Mumbai after a flop romantic film with Kangana Ranauat to become a key player in Bihar politics: ‘Had I give more years to Bollywood…’

Miley Naa Miley Hum was a major flop at the box office. It didn’t collect even Rs 1 crore at the worldwide box office, concluding its extremely short box office run at Rs 97 lakh globally and Rs 77 lakh domestically. While Kangana Ranaut went on to headline several movies after the movie, Chirag Paswan decided to quit the film industry, leave Mumbai, and return to his home turf, Bihar.

“I was working in Mumbai and I was pretty settled there. Had I given a few more years to Bollywood, I would have made a decent name for myself. The only reason I came to politics was that I had witnessed from close quarters how Biharis were treated in other parts of the country, how they were humiliated. The name Bihari itself was made into a gaali (cussword),” Chirag had told The Indian Express during his recent campaign.

Son of late Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who died at the age of 74 in 2020, Chirag Paswan joined his father’s political party Lok Janshakti Party. He became the party president in 2020 after his father’s demise and held the position for less than a year. He became an MP in 2014 from the constituency of Jamui, and is currently an MP from Hajipur.

Now the president of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Chirag was appointed as the Union Minister of Food Processing Industries last year after the National Democratic Alliance, of which his party is a part along with the BJP, won the Lok Sabha Elections. After being doubted as a contender widely, including from the members of his own extended family, Chirag has finally proved his mettle in the recently held Bihar State Elections.

His party won 19 of the 29 seats it contested in the assembly elections. This win comes on the party’s success in the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections when it won all the five parliamentary seats it contested. He had earlier stated that if NDA performs well in the Bihar state elections, his party would stake claim to the deputy chief minister post. Ever since his 2020 campaign, Chirag has also projected himself as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hanuman.