Leaders of the state Congress, including CLP leader Ashok Ram and PCC President Anil Sharma, met the AICC Secretary in-charge of the state Iqbal Singh to impress on him the need to get a better deal for the party in the state.

In the last Lok Sabha polls, Congress, RJD and LJP had fought together in Bihar but Congress managed to get only four seats out of 40 in the seat-sharing arrangement, in which it won three securing only 4.5 per cent of total votes polled.

LJP managed to bag eight in the seat-sharing, double that of Congress, but won only four. RJD, the big brother of the alliance in the state, had the maximum share of 26 seats with win in as many as 22 seats and a vote percentage of 30.7.

In the 2004 elections, NCP and the Left had managed one seat each, which were both lost. The NDA, comprising of BJP and JD(U) had won 11 seats.

Congress leaders from the state said apart from the four seats which they got last time in the seat-sharing pact, they will also field Ram Swarup Ram from Nalanda. Ram had won the 2004 polls on a JD(U) ticket but supported Congress during the July 22 trust vote.