Congress-RJD Engaged In Fresh Spat Ahead Of Bihar Council Polls
NDTV
Congress and RJD had fallen out with each other in October last year when the RJD unilaterally decided to contest by-elections for two assembly seats.
Lalu Prasad's RJD and the Congress, old allies in Bihar who have not been very comfortable in each other's company, are engaged in a fresh spat over two dozen seats in the state legislative council for which elections are scheduled in a couple of months.
The two parties had fallen out with each other in October last year when the RJD unilaterally decided to contest by-elections for two assembly seats, evoking strong protest from the Congress which vowed to go it alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the assembly elections which will be held a year later.
After the by-polls were comfortably won by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), the Congress-RJD bickering subsided, triggering speculations that the two largest constituents of the Grand Alliance may have sorted out differences.
However, recently Tejashwi Yadav, the leader of the opposition who virtually calls the shots in the RJD, founded and headed by his father, gave ample hints of the contempt for the Congress which has repeatedly been called out for its poor strike rate in the assembly polls.
