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HM Shah meets Nitish in Patna ahead of Bihar Polls
PATNA [Maha Media]: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is on a three-day visit to poll-bound Bihar, met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Friday, reported news agency PTI.
BJP sources told the news agency it was a courtesy meeting between Shah and Kumar, also the JD(U) supremo.
Shah, accompanied by senior BJP leaders, including Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, met Kumar at 1 Anne Marg, the official residence of the Chief Minister in Patna, reported news agency.
Senior JD(U) leaders, including the party's working national president Sanjay Jha, were also present at the meeting, reported PTI.
The polling for the 243-seat Bihar Assembly is scheduled to take place on November 6 and November 11, and votes will be counted on November 14. The last date for filing nominations for the first phase is October 17.
Later in the day, Shah is scheduled to address a public meeting in Saran in favour of NDA nominees in Amnaur and Taraiya assembly seats. He will also address a gathering of intellectuals at Gyan Bhawan in Patna, said a BJP leader.
Besides, the home minister will hold the BJP's organisational discussions and meet leaders of alliance partners during his three-day visit.
State BJP president Dilip Jaiswal had received Shah at Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport on Thursday evening.
During his Bihar tour, Shah is also likely to participate in processions before the filing of nomination papers by some NDA candidates.
The NDA has finalised its seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, with the BJP and Janata Dal (United) set to contest 101 constituencies each. Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) have been allotted six seats each, while Union Minister Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will contest on 29 seats.
On Thursday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party's star campaigner, Yogi Adityanath, entered Bihar's election battlefield, addressing rallies in support of the BJP's Ramkripal Yadav (Danapur) and the NDA's Shyam Rajak (Phulwari Sharif).
On Thursday, Amit Shah said, Lalu Prasad Yadav has "no right" to ask an account of the work done by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar. He should instead look at the account of the murders, kidnappings, and ransom cases during his tenure.
While taking a jibe at the Opposition parties and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Shah dared the leaders to prove if they have even done even 1/10th of the work of NDA during their own tenure.
