PATNA, March 15 -- Ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls on March 16, a series of meetings by alliance partners of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was held in Patna with top leaders claiming that their coalition candidates, including CM Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha, would sail through comfortably with a big margin. JD(U) MP and national working president of the party, Sanjay Kumar Jha, said that the NDA is confident of winning all five RS seats from Bihar and asserted that the decision on the next CM of the state will be taken by the alliance's top leadership. Speaking to the media here, Jha said meetings of the JD(U) legislature party are being organised as part of the party's preparations for the upcoming political developments in the state. Exuding confidence over the win of all NDA nominees in the Rajya Sabha elections, Jha said the alliance expects a clean sweep. "We will win all five Rajya Sabha seats," he said. In the evening, a meeting of NDA legislators was held at the residence of RLM chief Kushwaha, who is the fifth candidate of the NDA, in the RS polls. Union minister and candidate of JD(U) for the RS polls, Ram Nath Thakur claimed the NDA would win all the five seats. Neeraj Kumar, JD(U) MLC too said that the meeting at RLM chief's residence just ahead of the RS polls signified pre-celebrations of the impending win of all the five RS nominees of the NDA in the biennial polls. Earlier in the day, state BJP leaders also held a meeting of its core committee to discuss the upcoming RS polls in which legislators were given training of how to cast their votes through first and second preference. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, industry minister said that the party MLAs were briefed about the processes involved in casting one's vote in the RS polls. "The legislators of the party, many of whom are first-timers, were given a training on how to cast their votes in first and second preference category for the official nominees of the NDA. It is done before every RS polls. The core committee is informed about it," said Jaiswal. The RS polls has become a significant political event in Bihar this time with CM Nitish Kumar being in fray and leaving the reins of the state. His move, a centre of many speculations, could also be attributed to central support to the state as he has hinted so in recent remarks. For the fifth seat, that will see contest, the Opposition INDIA bloc has fielded sitting RJD MP Amarendra Dhari Singh for a second term. The opposition camp has only 35 MLAs, six short of the total 41 votes, and it banks on 5 AIMIM MLAs and one BSP MLA....