Paswan rules out tie-up with Cong in Bihar

Dismissing the prospects of his party entering into a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress in the coming Assembly polls in Bihar, Lok Jantantrik Party (LJP) chief Ramvilas Paswan today said it was not possible as the Congress had aligned with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

He said he had been maintaining this stand since the last elections and there was no change in it. He ruled out the possibility of the coming Assembly polls in Bihar throwing up another fractured verdict, and claimed his party-led front would contest all the 234 seats, and get a majority.

"No hung Assembly this time. Our front comprising the LJP, the CPI and the FB will get majority to form a government in Bihar," Paswan said who was here to attend a parliamentary consultative committee on petrochemicals and steel, told reporters.

Asked whether the Congress was anticipating that he would align with it, he dismissed it as "conjecture".