Amit Shah, on three-day visit to poll-bound Bihar, meets Nitish Kumar in Patna

Union Home Minister Amit Shah who is on a threeday visit to pollbound Bihar met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on Friday reported news agency PTIBJP sources told PTI it was a courtesy meeting between Shah and Kumar also the JDU supremoShah 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 PTISenior JDU leaders including the partys working national president Sanjay Jha were also present at the meeting reported PTIThe polling for the 243seat 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 17Later 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 leaderBesides the home minister will hold the BJPs organisational discussions and meet leaders of alliance partners during his threeday visitState BJP president Dilip Jaiswal had received Shah at Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport on Thursday eveningDuring his Bihar tour Shah is also likely to participate in processions before the filing of nomination papers by some NDA candidatesThe NDA has finalised its seatsharing arrangement for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections with the BJP and Janata Dal United set to contest 101 constituencies each Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhis Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular and Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwahas Rashtriya Lok Morcha RLM have been allotted six seats each while Union Minister Chirag Paswans Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas will contest on 29 seatsOn Thursday Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and the Bharatiya Janata Partys star campaigner Yogi Adityanath entered Bihars election battlefield addressing rallies in support of the BJPs Ramkripal Yadav Danapur and the NDAs Shyam Rajak Phulwari SharifOn 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 tenureWhile 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 110th of the work of NDA during their own tenureWith inputs from PTI