PATNA, Nov. 16 -- After a resounding victory of the NDA in Bihar assembly elections, talks on government formation has started with all the NDA alliance partners calling separate meeting of their victorious legislators in Patna. The leaders of NDA alliance partners also met chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday to congratulate him. According to NDA leaders familiar with the matter, the government formation process would begin in two-three days once all victorious MLAs, many of whom are still in their respective constituencies, reach Patna. The term of the current assembly is till November 22. The 18th assembly will be constituted on or before that day. As a first step of government formation, chief minister Nitish Kumar would meet Governor Arif Mohammad Khan and submit his resignation from the post and discuss about fixing the date of swearing-in ceremony for the next term. The BJP, which won 89 out of 101 seats it contested, convened a meeting of top leaders at party office on Saturday. Bihar BJP President Dilip Jaiswal said that after the NDA's landslide victory in Assembly elections, the party's central leadership would soon finalise everything regarding the formation of the government. "Everything will be decided within the next two days," he said and announced that on Sunday the party would hold a thanksgiving march in all districts of Bihar to express gratitude to the voters. Regarding the process of government formation, Jaiswal said that first, all NDA constituent parties would hold separate meetings of their legislators, where they will choose their respective leaders. After that, the leader of the NDA will be elected in a joint meeting of the alliance. "The schedule and details related to this will be announced by the BJP's central leadership," he said.. The BJP will soon appoint observers who would then hold meetings with party MLAs to elect a leader, with a similar process to be followed by the Janata Dal (United). A JD (U) leaders said that the party would be holding its legislative party meeting on Monday. A similar meeting would be convened by the BJP, LJP (RV), HAM-S and the RLM. On Saturday, union minister and senior JD (U) leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh and party working president Sanjay Jha met chief minister Nitish Kumar and is learnt to have discussed government formation. The two leaders are likely to hold discussions with senior BJP leaders in New Delhi. BJP Bihar election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan and Vinod Tawde also met Amit Shah in Delhi on Saturday. Union minister Chirag Paswan, who met the chief minister on Saturday said his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) was looking forward to joining the new government in Bihar and he "personally" felt that JD(U) president Nitish Kumar should continue as chief minister. Replying to a query, he said, "It is for the legislators to decide who should be the next CM or the deputy CM. I personally feel that Nitish Kumar should continue to head the government". Paswan on Saturday said representatives of his party LJP (Ram Vilas) met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to congratulate him for the resounding victory of the ruling NDA and discussed the formation of the next government in the state....