NEW DELHI, Dec 10: In keeping the strident anti-Congress, anti-BJP line towed by the United Front, the Janata Dal has ruled out any truck, direct or indirect, with the Congress in the forthcoming mid-term polls.

This was decided by the party's political affairs committee (PAC), which met here on Tuesday for the first time after the fall of the Gujral Government to discuss the Dal's strategy for the forthcoming elections.

The JD, which bagged 142 seats in the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, has this time round decided to concentrate only on three states -- Bihar, Karnataka and Orissa. ``Stability with change'' will be its main thrust.

Briefing reporters about the outcome of the meeting, which was attended among others by Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, his predecessor H D Deve Gowda, party chief Sharad Yadav and Union Ministers S Jaipal Reddy, Ram Vilas Paswan and Shrikanta Jena, general secretary Bapu Kaldate pointed out that, in Bihar, the JD would fight Laloo Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal.

Responding to the former Janata Dal chief S R Bommai's proposal to bring back former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, former Chief Ministers Ramakrishna Hegde and Om Prakash Chautala within the party fold, the PAC decided to seek the opinion of the state units.

The PAC also ruled out any truck with the BJP in Orissa where a vociferous section of the state leadership was rooting for a formal alliance with the party.

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