Poll pact in Bihar

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JAN. 19. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the CPI(M), the Samajwadi Janata Party (SJP) and the Janata Dal(Secular), today decided to have an electoral understanding for the next month's Assembly elections in Bihar.

``We have decided to join hands to take up the challenge posed by BJP and its allies and fight elections together in Bihar,'' the CPI(M) leader, Mr. Harkishan Singh Surjeet, said at a joint press conference attended by the RJD President Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav, SJP President, Mr. Chandra Sekhar and JD(S) president, Mr. H. D. Deve Gowda here.

The RJD-led front has come into existence after the CPI, CPM(ML)(L), MCC and Samajvadi Party announced formation of a new front to fight the Bihar elections. In response to a specific question, Mr. Surjeet said they had approached the CPI to be part of the RJD-led alliance but the CPI had declined.

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