Downplaying last month's bypoll results in Bihar in which the BJP-led coalition fared poorly winning only four out of 10 seats, Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday said it would be wrong to assume that the grand alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress would come to power in the Assembly polls next year.
“It will be wrong to assume on the basis of the bypoll results in Bihar that the grand alliance will grab power at next year’s Assembly polls,” Paswan said.
Stating that bypoll results were not always an indicator of things to come, the lJP chief said the erstwhile NDA constituting the JD(U) and the BJP had won only five out of 18 Assembly seats in the 2009 bypoll, but swept the Assembly polls a year later.
Paswan was talking to reporters at the State lJP office where he paid tribute to former Bihar Chief Minister Bhola Paswan Shastri on his 100th birth anniversary.
Paswan said lalu Prasad had started dreaming of becoming chief minister again after his party's victory in six seats in 2009 Assembly bypolls but his party RJD failed to win even 10 per cent of total Assembly seats (243) a year later during the Assembly polls, the lJP supremo said.