Tuesday, March 1 2005 19:18 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Patna: The CPI-ML (Communist Party of India Marxist- Leninist) (Liberation), having seven MLAs, today (March 1, 2005) requested the Bihar Governor, Buta Singh, not to invite either the RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) or NDA (National Democratic Alliance) to form a new Government in the State.

''We request you not to invite any of the two parties to form the Government in Bihar as the people have rejected both of them in the just-held Assembly elections,'' the party said in a letter to the Governor.

The letter, a copy of which was made available to the press, is signed by the CPI-ML's State committee secretary, Ramjatan Sharma.

When contacted, Sharma said that a two-day meeting of the party's standing committee has been called in Patna on March 3-4 to discuss the Assembly polls and decide the future course of action. Party general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya would also participate in the meet, he said.