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Voting for 94 seats will be done on November 3 and the remaining 78 seats on November 7.
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader and former MP Kali Pandey also joined the Congress.
He was elected to Lok Sabha eight times and also held the record of winning his constituency, Hajipur, with the highest margin for several years.
BJP backed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's leadership to the hilt and rebuffed LJP chief Chirag Paswan who has raised a banner of revolt.
The LJP has been very careful to indicate that its relation with the BJP at the Centre will stay unaltered, and also assured a 'post-poll alliance' with the BJP.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JDU will get 122 of the 243 seats while the BJP will contest on 121.
Like Paswan senior, who was able to survive in the turbulent political terrain of Bihar since 1960, it remains to be seen if Chirag can do an encore.
In addition to the four National People's Party (NPP) ministers, including former Deputy Chief Minister Y Joykumar Singh, three BJP MLAs, lone AITC legislator and an Independent had withdrawn support to the N Biren Singh dispensation on Wednesday.
The total strength against Chief Minister N Biren Singh is now 28, including 20 from Congress, 4 NPP, 2 from BJP (who quit during the day), one AITC and an Independent.
Other AAP leaders indicate that the party will redraw strategies to work on the national expansion plan.