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Congress threatens to quit grand alliance if respectable number of seats not offered

Patna Sep 26 (UNI) Congress today threatened to walk out from Grand Alliance and contest all 243 seats in Bihar if respectable number of seats were not offered to the party.
Mr Avinash Pandey, Chairman of Congress screening committee said here that his party would walk out from the Grand Alliance if respectable number of seats was not offered to it during seat sharing in the alliance. In the event of Congress not getting respectable number of seats, the party would contest all 243 seats in Bihar Assembly Elections, he added
Sources said that RJD was prepared to contest 150 seats while Congress had staked its claim on 70 seats. If RJD decided to contest 150 seats, Congress would have no option but to accept less than 70 seats as claims of other constituents of grand alliance would have to be considered as well.
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