AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said his party wrote to Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge, CPI(ML), and CPI leaders seeking inclusion in the Mahagathbandhan for Bihar polls. "But we received no response, so we joined hands with Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party and Swami Prasad Maurya," Owaisi said. AIMIM has announced the list of 25 candidates for Bihar election.