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Nitish Kumar is the National Democratic Alliance’s chief minister face in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has said. Party leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh also said that seat-sharing arrangements for the polls are underway and “the final formula would be announced soon”, asserting that “everything is fine within the NDA”.

This came on the same day that Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha is a member of the NDA, warned that the party would not contest the Bihar polls if it is not allocated 15 constituencies in the seat-sharing talks.

The Assembly polls are due to be held in two phases on November 6 and November 11, while the votes will be counted on November 14.

The polls will be held over a month after the Election Commission published updated electoral rolls after a special intensive revision revision of the voter lists. At least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final list published on September 30. Read on.

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