With just one day remaining for nominations in Bihar’s first-phase constituencies, the INDIA bloc remained without a seat-sharing formula, though coalition parties secured election symbols for their candidates without a formal announcement.

On the other hand, all five partners in the ruling NDA were through with announcements of candidates, from respective parties, for all 243 assembly segments.

Former state BJP president and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary and a number of his cabinet colleagues, including JD(U)’s Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, were among those who filed their nomination papers on a day bigwigs from other states like Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath flew down to spice up the election campaign.

Prominent among other BJP leaders from outside the state who were

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