Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her residence in New Delhi and is learnt to have discussed the current political situation in the country.

Kumar has been calling for forging a grand alliance of secular parties at the national level on the lines of the 2015 electoral alliance or 'Mahagathbandhan' in Bihar to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and is learnt to have raised the issue with Gandhi.

The Congress is a partner in the Bihar government with Kumar's Janata Dal-United and Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, after the three parties contested and won the assembly elections as part of the grand alliance. -- PTI