diff --git a/examples/offline_inference_vision_language.py b/examples/offline_inference_vision_language.py
index 4a09f77ca59f8..8a63653343db6 100644
--- a/examples/offline_inference_vision_language.py
+++ b/examples/offline_inference_vision_language.py
@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ def main(args):
     parser = FlexibleArgumentParser(
         description='Demo on using vLLM for offline inference with '
         'vision language models')
-    args = parser.parse_args()
     parser.add_argument('--model-type',
                         '-m',
                         type=str,