Patna: Candidates were yet to be announced by both the ruling NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc in poll-bound Bihar on Monday, even as just four days remain for filing nominations for the first phase, and the process beginning for the second leg.

However, state BJP president Dilip Jaiswal, who was back from Delhi a day after the NDA announced its seat-sharing formula, asserted that “all five constituents” were likely to declare their candidates “by tomorrow” and filing of nominations will be completed for both phases this week itself.

He said Union Home Minister Amit Shah was scheduled to arrive on October 16 on a three-day tour, and, during the period, “several other Union ministers and chief ministers of at least a dozen BJP-ruled states” were likely to be in Bihar to lend some extra

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