Manjhi favours RJD, Congress joining his govt

Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today spoke in favour of the idea of RJD and Congress joining the JD(U) government and said leaders of three parties will take a call in this regard.
"What is wrong if the RJD and Congress join my government?" he asked in reply to a question by reporters.
In fact, it will be good if the two parties (RJD and Congress) joined the government, Manjhi said on the sidelines of a function here.
Majhi's comments gained currency in view of the buzz that RJD and Congress would be joining his government to further cement the 'grand alliance' in Bihar and take on a resurgent BJP in the assembly polls.

Top leaders of these parties - (JD(U), RJD and Congress) - will sit together and decide on the issue, he said.
A senior JD(U) leader Shravan Kumar, and Parliamentary Affairs minister in the Manjhi government, had hinted yesterday that the RJD and Congress may join the JD(U) government soon to formalise their alliance with the ruling JD(U). The two parties had already been extending support from outside to JD(U) ever since the ruling party moved away from the NDA last year.
"There is great bonhomie among leaders of the JD(U), RJD and Congress. We go to their (RJD and Congress leaders') house and they come over to our places to attend functions," Kumar, a trusted aide of former chief minister Nitish Kumar, had said.

"We are taking support of both these parties (RJD and Congress) in the House. If they are supporting us everywhere then what is harm if they take part in the government too," he said.