The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) accused Bihar governor Sundar Singh Bhandari of acting as a ``stooge'' of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and violating the constitution and demanded his recall.

On a visit to Madhya Pradesh, Vajpayee told reporters here that his government ha to choose between ``lawlessness (in Bihar) on one hand and majority of the state government on the other'' and asserted the centre would have to act if people ``are suffering and there is chaos.''

Maintaining that article 356 could be used even if a state government enjoyed majority in the assembly, he said the centre was considering the report of the Bihar governor on the law and order situation there.

Apparently coming out in support of the RJD, the Congress in Delhitermed as improper the conduct of the governor and said conditions in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh were ``more conducive'' to imposition of president's rule than in Bihar.

The RLM announced its leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Laloo Prasad Yadav would meet president KR Narayanan on his return from abroad on Monday to ``apprise him of the conspiracy by BJP'' to dismiss the Rabri Devi government. RLM spokesman Amar Singh told reporters in Delhi after an emergency meeting of the morcha constituents that he had had talks with CPI (M) general secretary HS Surjeet and DMK leader Murasoli Maran and a letter was being written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi to enlist their support against any move to sack the Rabri Devi ministry. RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav said in Patna he would move the court if the Bihar government was dismissed and denied there was any constitutional breakdown and lawlessness in the state.