Congress had bagged three seats while LJP had got four. When RJD-LJP broke away from Congress in 2009, the results were disastrous for them.
While RJD won four seats, Congress won two and LJP failed to open its account with its chief Ram Vilas Paswan suffering a humiliating defeat in his home turf Hajipur.
Soon after the crushing defeat, both RJD and LJP realised the folly and since then, they have been trying to woo Congress.
Lalu Prasad's RJD had even offered unconditional support to the UPA-II government from outside.
However, there have been signals from Congress in the last one year that it was inching closer to NDA alliance partner JD(U), which eventually broke its 17-year-old alliance with BJP in June this year, opposing the elevation of Narendra Modi.
JD(U) had last year supported the candidature of Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential election going against BJP, which had propped up P A Sangma to contest against Mukherjee.
