The BSP contested solo in the 2025 Assembly election and fielded candidates on all 243 seats but managed to win only one.

Anil said he hoped Satish would remain with the BSP and would not switch sides. He recalled how its lone MLA Mohammad Jama Khan, who won from Chainpur in the 2020 Assembly polls, defected and joined Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United). Khan was later inducted as a minister in the Nitish cabinet after joining the party. “But this time,” the Bihar in-charge said, “history is going to repeat it.”

Prior to Jama Khan, Brij Kishore Bind, the BSP candidate from Chainpur, also defected and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Bind had won from the seat on a BJP ticket in 2009, 2010 and 2015 and became a cabinet minister in the NDA government.

In the 2025 Assembly election, Bind contested the election from the same seat but on a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) ticket after the BJP denied him a ticket. He, however, finished second, losing to JD(U)’s Mohammad Jama Khan.

Earlier, Suresh Pasi, who won from Mohania on a BSP ticket, and Ramchandra Singh Yadav, who won from Bhabua, had defected and joined the RJD and the Samajwadi Party, respectively.