The BJC chief patron and thrice chief minister of Bihar, Mishra, called on the JD parliamentary party leader, Ram Vilas Paswan, this morning and their meeting was followed by a one-to-one talk between the Samata Party state president, Raghunath Jha, and his JD counterpart, Ramjivan Singh.

Mishra later told reporters that the JD and BJC had resolved to launch an ``intensive joint campaign to force the dismissal of the corrupt and ineffective'' RJD ministry.

Dal sources confirmed that the veteran former Congressman, who had parted ways with his old party blaming it for having a ``soft corner'' for Laloo Prasad Yadav, would share the dias with Paswan and the JD president, Sharad Yadav, at public meetings at Bihta and Ara onSeptember 6.

Talking after his one-to-one chat with the Samata Party leader, Raghunath Jha, the state JD president, Ramjivan Singh, said that the two parties strongly felt the need for working in ``close coordination'' to check any split in anti-RJD votes in future elections.

Singh said that it was resolved that the two parties would mount further pressure on the Centre to dismiss the Rabri Devi government and contest the Assembly poll in alliance.

It is for the first time that the JD, a constituent of the United Front, has evinced interest in forging electoral understanding with an ally of the BJP, a party frequently dubbed as communal by UF constituents.

Singh said that his party did not deem Samata as a communal party and understanding between the two could reap good electoral harvest.

``Like Bihar the BJP has an alliance with Akalis in Punjab... The Akalis supported I K Gujral in the Lok Sabha poll and the BJP did not field its nominee to facilitate his election.. Nobody in the UF has evercomplained about it,'' he argued.

Singh said that today's talks would be followed by confabulations between top leaders of the two parties who had already shared a common platform on quite a few occasions in the recent past.

Later, Raghunath Jha described the talks as ``immensely fruitful'' and said that a joint agitational programme would be chalked out in a week's time. He claimed that the two parties had decided ``in principle'' to have electoral alliance in future to avoid a split in anti-RJD votes.