``President K R Narayanan should take the initiative to form a national government as Vajpayee's caretaker regime has failed to take care of the nation's security concerns, leading to escalation of tension in Kargil,'' RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav told mediapersons here.

``All political parties and the nation should be taken into confidence before formation of the national government,'' he said. The RJD executive, he said, felt that a war-like situation has been precipitated due to ``gross negligence'' and a ``total lack of commitment to the country's security concerns'' by the Centre.

There was total lack of coherence in the government in tackling the Kargil issue with the Prime Minister, Defence Minister, Union Home Minister and External Affairs Minister speaking ``contradictory languagesall the time,'' he charged.

``It is a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right one is doing,'' he remarked. The RJD executive felt that though India did not favour a war an undeclared one had been thrust on it, which should be won ``at all costs and as early as possible, even if it means crossing the Line of Control,'' he added.

RJD and its government in Bihar is prepared to do everything possible to protect national unity and integrity, he said quoting the executive's draft resolution on national security.

The Rabri Devi ministry in a late night meeting decided to provide government jobs to jawans disabled while fighting in Kargil, besides already adopting a policy decision to give Rs 10 lakh to the dependents of those who laid down their lives.

The RJD national executive on its first day today also discussed the political situation in the country in view of the coming Lok Sabha polls and criticised attempts to politicise the Kargil conflict, he said.

CPI general secretary A BBardhan, his CPI-M counterpart Harkishen Singh Surjeet, senior Janata Dal leader S R Bommai and Rashtriya Loktantrik Morcha (RLM) president Mulayam Singh Yadav have been invited to tomorrow's open session of the convention in a bid to strengthen the third force, he added.