Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, apparently under instructions from the party's top leadership, flew down to hold talks with RJD president Lalu Prasad and his son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav.

xNew Delhi, Patna: Former Rajasthan chief minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, who met RJD president Lalu Prasad on Wednesday in an effort to defuse tensions within the I.N.D.I.A. bloc in poll bound Bihar, said that an electoral victory was “extremely important” for the Opposition alliance after its recent setback in Maharashtra.

Gehlot, however, avoided a direct answer when asked whether the Congress was ready to project Tejashwi Yadav, the RJD chief’s son and heir apparent, as the alliance’s chief ministerial candidate. “Why do you want me to make such an announcement?” he r

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