PATNA: The ruling NDA on Sunday announced the seat-sharing formula for the Bihar assembly elections on Nov 6 and 11. BJP and JDU) will contest 101 seats each, leaving 29 for LJP(RV) of Chirag Paswan and six each to Hindustani Awam Morcha (S) of union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) president and former union minister Upendra Kushwaha. The Bihar legislative assembly has 243 seats. HAM(S) got its four sitting seats of Imamganj, Tekari, Sikandra and Barachatti besides Atri and Kutumba, highly placed sources said. Kushwaha will get six seats from Obra, Sasaram, Madhubani, Bajpatti, Narkatiya, Dumraon and Mahua, sources said. Kushawaha also wanted a few seats in Siwan and Saran besides Ujiayarpur and Goh. But BJP did not agree. JD(U) national executive presid

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