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Overall, BJP has ceded five seats — Valmikinagar, Siwan, Gopalganj, Gaya and Jhanjharpur to JD(U), while it has given Nawada to the LJP. PATNA: The three Bihar NDA partners — JD(U), BJP and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) — on Sunday jointly announced the parliamentary seats they would contest in the ratio of 17:17:6. In contrast, the BJP had secured 22 seats and the LJP six.The seats have been announced three months after CM Nitish, BJP national president Amit Shah and LJP chief had reached the 17:17:6 formula in December last year. The candidates would be announced “in a couple of days”, they said. They would work in all the 40 constituencies as one unit,” JD(U) state president Bashishtha Narayan Singh said.BJP state chief Nityanand Rai said favourable wind has been blowing in favour of the NDA in the entire state.“Today, we have jointly announced our seats..