PATNA, Oct. 5 -- The two-day meeting of the Bihar BJP election committee being chaired by party election in-charge Dharmendtra Pradhan and state president Dilip Jaiswal began at party office on Saturday. Party election co-in-charges CR Patil and Keshav Prasad Maurya are also part of the meeting. The meeting would primarily discuss on the probable names of candidates for the assembly elections and seat sharing will be discussed. This will begin the process of forwarding the list of candidates to the parliamentary board. The meeting will take into account the performance of current MLAs, their organizational activism, regional dynamics, and public response. Seat sharing and a shared strategy with allies will also be discussed. On Saturday, Maurya also held a meeting of the BJP's organizational divisions of Mithila, Tirhut, and Champaran in Muzaffarpur. Speaking to media, UP deputy chief minister Maurya said, "The opposition is baffled as PM Modi is the face of NDA and BJP in the nation, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is the face of Bihar. There is a double-engine government in Bihar. BJP and its allies are ready for the elections. We are confident that NDA will win the elections." "The meeting is a natural process before election. The party discuss every seat, candidates," said Rituraj Sinha, national secretary of the party and one of the members of the election committee. Following the Patna meeting, a Bihar BJP core group meeting will be held in Delhi to finalise the names. The BJP is said to be considering a large-scale overhaul to curb anti-incumbency. Among the ideas on the table is the so-called 'Gujarat model', whereby a sweeping revamp of candidates similar to the shake-ups the BJP carried out in Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, where it later reaped big electoral dividends. According to BJP leaders, familiar with the matter, more than two dozen sitting MLAs are likely to be denied tickets this time. The BJP leaders said that such a step has grown amid repeated feedback from the ground and recent surveys pointing to simmering voter anger against a large section of sitting MLAs, to stem the potential damage through anti-incumbency....