In the 2017 elections, the undivided Shiv Sena had secured 84 seats out of the total 227. While being in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party at that point, the alliance had secured the halfway mark of 114 seats, with the BJP winning 82 seats.
BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday congratulated Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha for being elected as the leader and the deputy leader of the BJP legislature party in Bihar.