RLM spokesman Amar Singh told newspersons that the morcha was sincerely trying to avoid split of secular votes to ensure defeat of the BJP during the coming polls in four states -- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Mizoram, but ``we are clear that dialogue for poll tie-up cannot be opened with any self-styled Congress leader''.

However, he admitted that there was no feeler from the Congress for any understanding for the Assembly polls.

In reply to a question abut leadership crisis in the Karnataka unit of the Janata Dal, he said the morcha would support Chief Minister J H Patel who had taken anti-BJP stand on the issue of dismissal of the Rabri Devi Government in Bihar.

He mounted a veiled attack onthose JD leaders who had approached President K R Narayanan for endorsing the Union Cabinet's recommendation of clamping President's rule in Bihar.

About the RLM's links with Buta Singh's Rajasthan Vikas Party, he said the morcha had no truck with Buta Singh who had ``failed'' to give a convincing explanation for his role in the Ayodhya shilanyas case during his tenure in the Union Home Ministry.

Asked whether he considers the Congress guilty for that act, he replied in affirmative.