Divide between Congress and RJD

Talks between the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) to forge an electoral alliance in Bihar have hit a rough patch, and the chances of both contesting separately are high, sources in both the parties told The Hindu.

Both parties are finding it difficult to agree on the seats that each will contest. "The only good thing at the moment is that we have not stopped talking," a Congress source said.

The LJP had walked out of talks with the Congress and announced an alliance with the BJP on Thursday. Nitish Kumar's JD(U) and the CPI are in alliance in the State that has 40 seats in the Lok Sabha.

The Congress source said RJD chief Lalu Prasad would formally give the Congress a list of 13 or 14 seats that he would be willing to concede by Saturday.

In discussions so far, Mr .Prasad has only offered high risk seats to the Congress, where the presence of Yadavs and Muslims, the core social combination that sustains the alliance, is negligible. "We said let there be a sharing that involves both parties contesting good and bad seats," the Congress leader said.


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