Nitish Kumar and Nadda hold seat-sharing talks for Bihar polls

Patna: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) began preparing for the Bihar Assembly elections due later this year with JD(U) supremo and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar meeting BJP president JP Nadda for seat-sharing talks.

Nadda was accompanied by deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, party national general secretary and state in-charge Bhupendra Yadav and state unit president Sanjay Jaiswal.

The JD(U) national president, who was accompanied by key party aide Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan, accorded a warm welcome to Nadda, who hails from Himachal Pradesh but was born and brought up in Patna. At the meeting, held at the CM’s residence, leaders of the two parties are understood to have discussed the key issue of seat-sharing among alliance partners in the NDA, which also includes Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP).