Referring to the recent developments, Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said, "It is not as if Bihar Chief Minister has recused himself from the circle of questions. After all he ran the Government for four years eight months with the help of the BJP."

Asked whether the Congress is open to an alliance with the JD(U) if it splits with the BJP, Tewari said that a senior party leader has already replied on it. AICC general secretary incharge of Bihar Mukul Wasnik had said that the party will go solo in Bihar Assembly election. "(Nitish) Kumar's real communal face has been exposed during the national executive meeting of the BJP," Wasnik said on Monday addressing party workers in Kishanganj, Bihar.

The Congress said that with the BJP's alliance partners in NDA deserting it before State Assembly election, the NDA had ceased to exist. "In 2004, people of India rejected NDA. In 2009, the rejection was decisively reiterated. In Orissa, the Biju Janata Dal decided to part ways with the NDA. In Jharkhand we saw the BJP making a spectacle of itself in the scramble for power. One thing has become absolutely clear, the NDA as an alliance has ceased to exist. It may exist on paper but in reality, it is almost finished.

The rap that Nitish Kumar had given to the BJP clearly shows the alliance is over," Tewari said. Since people have rejected communalism, NDA's allies are now "scurrying for cover", the Congress spokesperson said.