<p>An alliance between the Congress and the RJD in Bihar for the Lok Sabha polls has been finalised and is expected to be formally announced here Wednesday night.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"We will formally announce the alliance and seat adjustments," an upbeat Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad said, announcing that the alliance with the Congress has been finalised.<br /><br />Speaking at a public meeting in Gaya Wednesday, he said his party will declare the list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls within two days.<br /><br />According to RJD leaders close to Lalu Prasad, the alliance with the Congress will be declared at official residence of Rabri Devi, a former chief minister and the RJD chief's wife, later wednesday evening.<br /><br />The RJD has agreed to set aside 12 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar for the Congress to contest and one for the Nationalist Congress Party.<br /><br />Lalu Prasad had earlier said that he would offer only 11 seats to the Congress and one to the NCP, and the RJD would contest the all others.<br /><br />His aides say he has learnt a bitter lesson since the last Lok Sabha elections when he contemptuously offered only three seats to the Congress.<br /><br />In December, after being released on bail in the fodder scam case, Lalu Prasad, who broke his alliance with the Congress in 2009, said he would not repeat the mistake.<br /><br />In 2004, the Congress-RJD-Lok Janshakti Party combine won 29 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. But fighting separately in 2009, the RJD got only four seats and the Congress two.<br /><br />Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP, which has recently joined the National Democratic Alliance, did not win a single seat.</p>
<p>An alliance between the Congress and the RJD in Bihar for the Lok Sabha polls has been finalised and is expected to be formally announced here Wednesday night.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"We will formally announce the alliance and seat adjustments," an upbeat Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad said, announcing that the alliance with the Congress has been finalised.<br /><br />Speaking at a public meeting in Gaya Wednesday, he said his party will declare the list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls within two days.<br /><br />According to RJD leaders close to Lalu Prasad, the alliance with the Congress will be declared at official residence of Rabri Devi, a former chief minister and the RJD chief's wife, later wednesday evening.<br /><br />The RJD has agreed to set aside 12 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar for the Congress to contest and one for the Nationalist Congress Party.<br /><br />Lalu Prasad had earlier said that he would offer only 11 seats to the Congress and one to the NCP, and the RJD would contest the all others.<br /><br />His aides say he has learnt a bitter lesson since the last Lok Sabha elections when he contemptuously offered only three seats to the Congress.<br /><br />In December, after being released on bail in the fodder scam case, Lalu Prasad, who broke his alliance with the Congress in 2009, said he would not repeat the mistake.<br /><br />In 2004, the Congress-RJD-Lok Janshakti Party combine won 29 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. But fighting separately in 2009, the RJD got only four seats and the Congress two.<br /><br />Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP, which has recently joined the National Democratic Alliance, did not win a single seat.</p>