Lalu offers two more seats, cold blast from 10 Janpath

Hours after snubbing the congress by offering merely three seats to it in Bihar on Tuesday, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav sought an appointment with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, expressing his desire to hold seat-sharing talks and reportedly offering two more seats.

However, in a sign of the winds blowing from 10 Janpath, till late on Wednesday evening, there was no response from her office. Instead, chairman of the AICC Screening Committee for Bihar Sushilkumar Shinde emerged out of the house to declare that the Congress — which had demanded no less than 10 of the 40 seats in the state — will contest more than 26 seats in Bihar.

The Congress also sewed up a seat-sharing agreement with the JMM in Jharkhand on Wednesday, leaving the RJD only the two seats it had won last time. Under the pact, the Congress will contest seven and the JMM five of the 14 seats in the state. "We have left two seats for the RJD," AICC in-charge of Jharkhand K Keshav Rao announced here.

An undeterred Lalu declared today: “My loyalty to Sonia Gandhi is more than that of any Congressman... Soniaji is a noble leader. I stand behind her like a rock and will do so in the future also. She will decide the next prime minister and I am sure that the next government will be formed under the leadership of Manmohan Singh. I am in touch with Mulayam and both of us are with Sonia Gandhi and our aim is to defeat communal and Fascist forces.”

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Lalu offers two more seats, cold blast from 10 Janpath

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