Patna, Apr 28: Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM) leader Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party for demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya.

Yechury also criticized the Congress for failing in its duties to prevent the national shame.

“The BJP played the role of the murderer and the Congress failed in its duty as police captain to protect the Babri mosque,” Yechury said at a press conference here.

Patna, Apr 23 : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday denied any rift with the Left parties and said that the United Progressive Front (UPA) would welcome a post-poll coalition deal with them if the alliance is not able to succeed in the elections.

Talking to reporters here, Lalu said, "The doors for a post-poll alliance with the Left is still open. We had difference with the Left only over the civilian nuclear deal and nothing else. We have been friends with CPI (M) for a long time."

Patna, Apr 22: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were engaged in a war of words on Wednesday hours after Maoists struck in four places in Bihar and Jharkhand.

"The entire Nitish Kumar Government is a failure in Bihar. The Naxals are attacking all over Bihar. There is anarchy everywhere in the state. The Naxals have burnt the entire Bihar while the Nitish Kumar led government is sleeping," said Lalu.

Patna, Apr. 21: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi''s rallies in Bihar were cancelled at the eleventh hour on Tuesday, without citing any reason for the same.

"The information we have received from the AICC headquarters is that Soniaji''s rallies stand cancelled. No reason has been assigned," said Samir Kumar Singh, Bihar Congress Working President.

Patna, Apr. 21: Senior Congress party leader Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav would not be a part of the next government.

Addressing an election rally in Samastipur, Mukherjee said: "Lalu will neither form the government or will be a part of the next government. Lalu should have given us three seats in Bihar we had asked for. We will never tolerate being treated as a doormat."

Patna, Apr 17 : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Friday filed his nomination for the newly-formed Patliputra parliamentary constituency.

Prasad is contesting the polls from two constituencies. The second one is the Saran parliamentary constituency, where polling took place in the first phase of the general elections on Thursday.

Prasad submitted his papers to returning officer J. K. Sinha.