India, Oct. 19 -- With the dates for voting in Bihar approach, the INDIA bloc seems to be descending further into chaos over the seat-sharing in the coalition group as the Congress released a list of 48 candidates late on Thursday just hours before Friday's deadline for filing nominations in the first phase covering 121 constituencies on November 6.

In a fresh reveal of the fissures within the grand anti-BJP front, Hemant Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha on Saturday announced to contest the Bihar assembly polls independently, and said the party would "review" its alliance with the Congress and RJD in Jharkhand after the elections in the neighbouring state.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used the opportunity to take a dig at the grand al...