Patna: The BJP election committee for Bihar assembly polls met here for the second consecutive day on Sunday to give final touches to its preparations for the high-stakes elections that are expected to be announced soon.

The meeting was chaired by Union minister and in-charge for the upcoming elections, Dharmendra Pradhan, who was joined by cabinet colleague and co-in charge for the polls, CR Paatil, besides BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde.

On Saturday, state BJP president Dilip Jaiswal had told reporters that the state election committee had held discussions on 60 of its "sitting seats" in the 243-strong assembly.

In the 2020 polls, the party had won 75 seats out of 110 that it had contested, and its strength rose over the years on account of defections from other parties as

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