Patna, Apr 17 (PTI) Constituents of the INDIA bloc in Bihar on Thursday formed a coordination committee headed by RJD's Tejashwi Yadav to deliberate upon a common minimum programme for the assembly polls due later this year.

A decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of all alliance partners of the ‘Mahagathbandhan' in the state at the RJD office here.

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“Alliance partners of the ‘Mahagathbandhan' unanimously took a decision to constitute a coordination committee to formulate a joint strategy and a common minimum programme for the upcoming assembly polls. I have been chosen to head the panel,” Yadav said.

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“We are united and will unitedly fight the elections,” he asserted.

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