CPM central committee member Vijaykant Thakur on Monday requested Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi not to give any leader more than two-three days time to prove majority on the floor of the Assembly.

"The governor should convene the special sitting of the Assembly to test the majority. Besides, the governor should not give more than two-three days time to any leader, whom he gives opportunity, to prove his majority on the floor of the Assembly. According to the Supreme Court's judgment, the majority has to be tested on the floor only," Vijaykant Thakur told The Telegraph.

Thakur added that the governor should not only abstain from giving too much time (longer period of 10 to 15 days) to Jitan Ram Manjhi to prove his majority but should also restrain him from carrying out cabinet expansion.

Reason: The move would promote the scope of horse-trading in the backdrop of the fact that the Nitish Kumar-led JDU has submitted the support of 130 legislators to the governor.

Thakur, accompanied by newly elected state secretary Awadhesh Kumar and senior party leader Sarvoday Sharma, alleged that Manjhi is dancing to the tunes of BJP, which wants imposition of President's rule in the state by putting Manjhi on forefront.

"Manjhi has not done anything concrete for the welfare and uplift of Scheduled Castes (SCs)," Thakur said, admitting that Manjhi has been able to create awareness among the Scheduled Caste community.

The CPM does not have a single legislator in the Assembly but its Left ally CPI has one MLA in the Lower House. CPI, along with Congress and RJD, submitted the letter to the governor in support of JDU leader Nitish.

Thakur stressed on the need to work for the Left unity in the state and CPM has taken the responsibility to bring other Left forces - CPI, CPI (ML), SUCI, Forward Bloc - on a single platform to carry out the fight against the parties having communal and neo-liberal policies especially the BJP. "We will try to create an alternative based on the movements and agitations on the issues of common people," he said.

Thakur said Awadhesh Kumar was recently elected party's state secretary in its just-concluded three-day 21st state conference of Bihar State Committee at Bettiah in East Champaran.

The conference was organised between February 5 and 7, which was attended by CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, politburo member S.R. Pillai, Brinda Karat, central secretariat member Hannan Mollah and other leaders.