PATNA, DEC 12: Former Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav today offered the olive branch to Left parties and "willing UF constituents" and suggested formation of a "secular front" with the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party.

"My doors are open for the Left parties and United Front constituents, amenable to forming a broad-based secular front, to prevent the BJP from coming to power," the Rashtriya Janata Dal president told a crowded press conference at the Chief Minister's official residence soon after his release from jail.

Ruling out his party's merger with Janata Dal, Yadav, however, welcomed "noble souls" in the JD like Prime Minister I K Gujral and Union ministers S R Bommai and R L Jalappa into the RJD.

Launching a scathing attack on former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, Railway Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Janata Dal president Sharad Yadav, he termed them as "traitors to the cause of secularism."