India, Sept. 16 -- Fissures have begun to appear within the Opposition INDIA bloc in Bihar, especially between its two key constituents - the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) - over seat-sharing arrangements and the projection of the alliance's chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming assembly polls.

While the Congress, buoyed by people's response to the Rahul Gandhi-led Voter Adhikar Yatra, has pushed for 70 assembly seats -the same number it had contested in the 2020 state polls, when it managed to win only 19- in the upcoming polls slated for October-November this year, the RJD appears unwilling to concede, people familiar with the matter said.

RJD patriarch and former chief minister Lalu Prasad, who has been keeping a...