The RJD-LJP would launch joint campaign to ensure the victory of their candidates in Bihar and Jharkhand. "We will not campaign for the Congress party," Lalu said.
Signalling a possible realignment of parties after the Lok Sabha polls, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Wednesday, said the UPA might take help of the Third Front to form a secular government at the Centre if it fails to get a majority.
"We (UPA allies) are confident of gaining majority in the Lok Sabha on our own. But, in the event of lack of majority in the House, we may seek support from the Third Front," Prasad said at a press conference where he announced the entry of Nagmani, who resigned from the JD(U), into RJD.
Defending his decision to break up electoral ties with the Congress in Bihar, he said the Congress' announcement that it would contest from more than the three seats the RJD-LJP combine allotted to it under the seat-sharing accord in Bihar warranted the "extreme step".
"If the Congress wants to regain moorings in Bihar we can't do anything. People should know the ground realities," he said, but maintained that he had no difference on the issue with the Congress leadership.
The RJD-LJP would launch joint campaign to ensure the victory of their candidates in Bihar and Jharkhand. "We will not campaign for the Congress party," he said.
When his attention was drawn to Union minister Ramvilas Paswan's announcement that the LJP would fight the elections to Bihar assembly in alliance with RJD, Prasad said there was nothing wrong in it.
"We are together and want to continue our ties to keep the communal forces at the bay," he said.
In reply to another question, Prasad said apart from campaining for the candidates of the LJP-RJD combine, he would also go to Uttar Pradesh to drum up support for Samajwadi Party.
"Mulayam Singh Yadav ji will also visit Bihar and Jharkhand to campaign for our nominees," the RJD leader said.
Prasad announced that senior RJD leader Umashankar Singh would be party candidate from Maharajganj parliamentary constituency in Bihar.
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