PATNA, Dec. 2 -- After a key review meeting with Congress' district unit presidents and other almost all top party leadership of the state, Bihar Congress Pradesh Committee chief Rajesh Ram said the party, which suffered a crushing defeat in the recently held state assembly elections, will strengthen the organisation at the district level. He also said that the issue of continuation of the party's alliance with the RJD is irrelevant as the understanding between the two is "electoral", and not "organisational". "Our alliance with the RJD is electoral and not organisational. The question on continuation of the alliance at this point in time is irrelevant as both Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections are four and five years away, respectively," Ram said during an interaction with reporters after the meeting. "We will work to strengthen the organisation from the district level down to the panchayat level. At the same time, a big rally is being organised in Delhi on December 14 against vote theft allegedly done by the BJP in collusion with the Election Commission of India (ECI). A large contingent of party workers from Bihar will participate," said the BPCC president. Earlier at the meeting, party's district-level functionaries blamed the senior leaders of ignoring their roles during the campaigning, irregularities in distribution of tickets and lack of coordination among the allies of Mahagathbandhan for humiliating defeat of the party in the last assembly polls. All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge for Bihar Krishna Allavaru was also present and almost all the poll candidates of the party also took part in the meeting. Anil Prasad Singh, district president of Nalanda, alleged that the election observers seldom contacted them during the campaigning. "The observers used to meet only the candidates and hardly sought the organisation's role to bolster the campaigning," said Singh, adding that the party should have been more prudent in the selection of candidates with proven loyalty and commitment. Another district president accused the Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) habit of taking the Congress for granted and said that its adamant approach in seat allocation and fielding candidates on the seats allotted to the Congress had complicated the miseries of the official nominees. "We would have performed better if we had contested on our own," he added. A majority of the district presidents and head of the frontal organisations acknowledged large-scale irregularities in voting and special intensive revision of electoral rolls amounting to 'theft of vote' as a common refrain for the crushing defeat of the MGB candidates in general. They pledged to continue exposing the nefarious design of vote theft and its implications among the people. There was also detailed discussion with the district presidents on strengthening Congress at the panchayat level and forming powerful booth committees for organisational strength. It was also decided to undertake intensive tours across the state. "Along with this, the party will fulfil its responsibility from the issues of the people, both on the streets and in the legislature," said Ram, adding the plans for strengthening the organisation were also deliberated upon. A section of the senior Congress leaders, meanwhile, urged the party high command to break its tie with the RJD, which, according to them, always adopted the opportunistic politics and stabbed on the back of the party. "It's high time that the Congress decided to rebuild the organisation and snapped its dependence on the RJD. The RJD always chose to betray the Congress and spoil its plan to reclaim its old vote bank," said a senior Congress leader and state delegate Kishore Kumar Jha. "The current miserable condition of Congress has been attributed to the arrogance and stubborn attitude of Tejashwi Prasad Yadav. Even after being in the alliance, Yadav took every decision single-handedly and imposed it on the partner parties. He never cared to listen to the opinion of any ally before taking decisions," said Jha, adding that the RJD leader forced "friendly contests" on many seats that badly damaged the alliance in the fray. Another former MLA of the party said the open abuse of upper castes (Savarnas) during the campaigning by the RJD and other leaders of the alliance partners led to churning out of the forward caste votes from the Congress. "The leader of an MGB ally went to the extent of openly saying in his speech that Brahmins and Rajputs should be beheaded. RJD leaders spread caste frenzy to such an extent that all non-Yadav OBCs and EBCs consolidated against them and extended full support to the NDA," said the former MLA, adding that caste hysteria fanned by the MGB leaders made upper castes to support the NDA....