In the absence of his ailing father, Chirag, therefore, has a mammoth task cut out for him. Unlike Paswan Sr., who first became an MLA way back in 1969, Chirag is relatively new to state politics, especially to assembly elections. Even though he won the Lok Sabha elections for the second consecutive term from Jamui (Reserved) constituency in 2019, it is his father who had always spearheaded the party campaign as the biggest Dalit leader from Bihar. Except in the past six-seven years, Chirag stayed away from state politics and even tried his luck in Bollywood with a film, Miley Naa Miley Hum (2011) opposite Kangana Ranaut. But after its failure at the box office, he left the tinsel world and contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.