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Patna : JD (U) National President and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on September 12, 2020, held meeting with BJP National President Jagat Prakash Nadda on seat-sharing among the NDA constituents for State Assembly elections. Nadda, accompanied by senior party colleagues including Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, national general secretary and state in-charge Bhupendra Yadav, and state president Dr Sanjay Jaiswal, called on CM Nitish Kumar at his official residence 1, Anne Marg. Nadda arrived here on September 11 evening on a two-day tour of Bihar.
Nitish, who was accompanied by key party aide Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan, MP, accorded a warm welcome to Nadda, who hails from Himachal Pradesh but was born and brought up in Patna. At the meeting which lasted for more than half an hour, the leaders of the two parties discussed the key issue of seat-sharing among NDA constituents including Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.
The BJP leadership is also understood to have assured Bihar Chief Minister Kumar that it will intervene and iron out the differences that have of late cropped up between the JD(U) and the LJP on account of the belligerent stance adopted by LJP President Chirag Paswan, MP. The schedule for assembly elections in the state is likely to be announced shortly. The Election Commission has indicated that it would like to conclude the exercise before end of term of the present house on November 29, 2020.
On September 11, 2020, evening, at a press conference here, the BJPs election in-charge for Bihar assembly and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had sought to make light of the acrimony between JD(U) and LJP saying nobody is going to leave the NDA, though many may join us.