Senior BJP leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah and party president JP Nadda, held a meeting with party leaders and those of the allies on the ensuing Bihar election here on Saturday, with the BJP state unit chief Dilip Jaiswal, indicating that seat-sharing arrangements with the NDA partners will be announced by Sunday.

This came a day ahead of the expected meeting of Central Election Committee of BJP, which includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders, to finalise the names of the party candidates for the Bihar Assembly election scheduled to be held in two phases on November 6 and 11.

Sources said the seat-sharing formula with the Janata Dal (United) [JD(U)] and LJP (Ram Vilas) [LJP(RV)] has almost been finalised while discussions were on with other two allies —

See Full Page