Senior state BJP leader and minister Giriraj Singh said it vindicated NDA's stand that the contest between the RJD and Congress was "preplanned and fixed".
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today said it would seek Congress support in any attempt to form government in Bihar in the event of a hung assembly in the coming Assembly polls but the national party ruled out post-poll ties with Lalu Prasad's outfit.
"We will see what comes up after the elections. In the event of the RJD-LJP alliance falling short of majority, it will approach Congress and other secular parties for support," RJD's national vice-president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh told reporters.
But state Congress chief spokesperson Prem Chandra Mishra said, "We are going all alone in 243 seats and we will not have any post-poll pact with the RJD."
Mishra said Singh's statement is mischievous. "Congress is sure of forming government on its own," he added.
Reacting to Singh's statement, senior state BJP leader and minister Giriraj Singh said it vindicated NDA's stand that the contest between the RJD and Congress was "preplanned and fixed".
"Congress and RJD are two faces of the same coin and will be seen joining after the polls," he added.
Elections to the state assembly begins on October 21 when the first of the six phases would be held.
Mishra said Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi would, during his second leg of election campaign, address meetings at Belsand in Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur and Kalyanpur in SamaStipur on October 21.
Singh also said that the RJD's decision to sever ties with the Congress was a "big blunder".
"It is not only me, even RJD chief Lalu Prasad has admitted that the breaking of ties with Congress has been a major blunder," he said.
He, however, claimed that the RJD-LJP combine would "pull off a spectacular performance" and win two-thirds of the 243 seats.
"One thing has now become crystal clear that Nitish Kumar is not going to stage a comeback," Singh, also an MP, said.
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