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“The NDA has so far held no formal meeting on seat-sharing issue in Bihar. “All partners are equal in democracy and we all are ‘bhai-bhai’ in the state NDA,” he said.“Suppose a party in Bihar wins 121 seats in the 243-member state assembly. “It may be their tactics to pressurise the BJP,” Anand said.He said the BJP being the biggest partner should immediately call a meeting of all NDA partners to discuss the seat-sharing issue.Earlier, on August 28, state JD(U) president Bashishtha Narain Singh had said seat-sharing among the state NDA partners would be finalized by the second week of September. He further said the JD(U) would prefer fielding young candidates as per the social equations in the constituencies.Besides JD(U) and BJP, Ram Vilas Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) of Upendra Kushwaha are the other NDA partners in Bihar.However, the RLSP refuted Singh’s claim. PATNA: The JD(U) on Friday claimed talks for seat-sharing among the NDA partners for the 2019 Lok Sabha election in Bihar was in the final stages.“We have almost completed the process amicably and the seat-sharing formula will be announced ‘bahut shighra’ (very soon),” JD(U) national general secretary (organization) and chief minister Nitish Kumar’s close confidante RCP Singh told reporters here.Singh, who is considered number 2 in the party after JD(U) president Nitish Kumar , also said there was no “big brother and younger brother” concept among the NDA partners..