India, Oct. 13 -- Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) has already struck a seat-sharing deal with NDA ally BJP, but some details are being ironed out. Both parties sat across the table on Monday to thrash out those details, which included constituencies they planned to swap or give up in favour of smaller allies.

The NDA announced the seat-sharing formula for the coalition on Sunday, with both the JD(U) and the BJP contesting 101 seats each in the polls to the 243-strong assembly. Chirag Paswan's Lok Janashakti Party (Ram Vilas) got 29 seats in the deal.

Rashtriya Lok Morcha of Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwaha and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) of former chief minister, and now a Union minister, Jitan Ram Manjhi, got si...