New Delhi, Sep 14 (PTI): The National Democratic Alliance on Monday finalised its seat sharing for Bihar polls with the Bharatiya Janata party getting to contest 160 of the 243 assembly constituencies while allies Lok Janshakti Party and Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha have been alloted 40 and 20 seats respectively.

Announcing the decision after days of hectic parleys, BJP chief Amit Shah, who was flanked by other key leaders of the alliance such as Manjhi and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, said Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party will contest in 23 seats and stressed that there is “no tug of war” among the four NDA constituents over the seat sharing agreement for the next month's polls.

Shah also chose the occasion to appeal to workers of all the four NDA allies to fight the elections together to ensure a resounding victory for the alliance against the coalition of Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress.

Manjhi, who is former Bihar chief minister, was apparently unhappy earlier when he was offered 15 seats.

The BJP chief on Monday said the issue of Chief Ministership would be decided by the NDA legislators after the polls and asserted that there are no differences among the constituents.

”On the one side is a coalition of compulsion. On the other side is an alliance with a common chemistry and similar ideologies,” Shah claimed.

Asking people of Bihar to give a chance to the NDA, Shah also reminded that Bihar was the cradle of anti-Congressism and urged the electorate to take forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for a “Congress-mukt Bharat”.

Shah launched a hard-hitting attack on the grand coalition of JDU-RJD and Congress saying divisions have already started appearing in it with Mulayam Singh Yadav, leader of the ‘Janata Parivar, walking out of the alliance with his Samajwadi Party.

Shah accused Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of “backstabbing” the BJP by breaking the 17-year-long alliance in 2013 and castigated him for aligning with Congress and RJD.

”He (Nitish) is promising to give a corruption-free Bihar by aligning with Congress, which was involved in scams worth Rs 12 lakh crore. He is also promising to provide a crime- free Bihar while aligning with RJD's Lalu Prasad, whose tenure was known for 'jungle raj',” Shah said at the press conference.

Among those present were Kushwaha and other BJP leaders from the state including Sushil Kumar Modi.

Noting that the people of Bihar have given a chance to all three parties Congress, RJD and JD(U) to rule the state, Shah said, “We appeal to people of Bihar to give one chance to NDA” and promised to realise the dream of the state's development if BJP is voted to power.

The BJP chief rejected suggestions of any “ill-treatment” to Manjhi.

Manjhi had kept the BJP on tenterhooks for days but the two sides clinched the seat sharing agreement last night at a meeting between Manjhi, Ananth Kumar, who is the BJP’s person in charge of the Bihar elections, and Bhupendra Yadav, the general secretary in charge of the state, Bhupendra Yadav.

The five-phase polling for the 243-member assembly begins from October 12 and concludes on November 5.