Patna,(BiharTimes): After repeatedly claiming that the Bharatiya Janata Party should not contest more than 102 seats Union minister of state for human resources development and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party chief, Upendra Kushwaha, said on Thursday that any decision taken by the saffron party is acceptable to him.
Not only that he wrote a letter to the BJP national president, Amit Shah, asking him to finalize the seat-sharing arrangement at the earliest. It is upto the BJP to decide on number of seats it and the three allies of the NDA should contest.
This is a significant departure from his past stand when he would demand 67 seat for RLSP and 73 for Lok Janshakti Party. Later the RLSP demanded 36 seats for itself.
Meanwhile, Ananth Kumar, the Bihar incharge of the BJP, praised Upendra Kushwaha for his letter to Amit Shah. This would help the NDA consolidate in Bihar. 
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Ticket seekers throng Nitish’s bungalow, RJD office
Patna,(BiharTimes): A day after the announcement of election dates by the Election Commission a large number of ticket seekers on Thursday thronged the bungalows of chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD office in Beer Chand Patel.
While some JD(U) aspirants wanted to meet the CM many RJD leaders submitted their bio-data in the party office with the hope that they would get ticket.
The crowd is likely to swell in coming days as the latest pre-poll survey has given a clear edge to JD(U)-RJD-Congress combine.
According to the survey the grand alliance is likely to win 116 to 132 seats and may walk away with 43 per cent votes against 40 per cent by the NDA.
As the grand alliance has finalized the seat-sharing arrangement the crowd outside the offices of JD(U), RJD and Congress is at present stronger than in the offices of NDA constituents.