New Delhi: Sensing the possibility of mid-term polls in the wake of the stand off on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the RJD, a key ally of the UPA government, today held a strategy session with senior leaders pledging to pull up their socks to replicate the party's success in the last Lok Sabha elections.

Chaired by party chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, the party's national executive took stock of the political situation in the country at a time when major parties are getting into election mode.

While Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a known detractor of Prasad, is seeking to consolidate the NDA, the top brass of RJD strongly condemned the law and order situation in the state. "The State Government has failed on all fronts," was their refrain.

With the BJP seeking to make the Ram Setu controversy a major issue, the RJD charged the saffron party with trying to polarise voters on communal lines.

The recommendations of Sachar Panel, Ranganath Misra Commission and Fatmi Committee on improving the lot of educationally, economically and socially backward Muslims was also discussed at the meeting, attended by former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and senior party Vice President and Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh among others.

The party expressed concern over increasing incidents of terrorism and extremism and condemned the recent serial blasts in Hyderabad and ULFA violence in Assam and suggested that social unrest could be tackled only by ensuring all-round development. 

RJD, which lost power in Bihar in the assembly polls two years ago despite winning over two dozen Lok Sabha seats in 2004, will hold a rally in Patna on October 28 to protest against law and order situation in the state and give a fresh call to defeat communal forces.

Party leaders said a number of recent incidents in which people took law into their hands amply proved that "jungle raj" prevailed in the state and cited the lynching of 10 suspected thieves in Vaishali district few days ago. "There is no governance in the state which has completely plunged into anarchy. Law has stopped functioning in Bihar," they alleged.

The handling of flood relief and rescue operation in Bihar also came in for sharp criticism at the meeting and the Chief Minister was attacked for his visit to Mauritius at a time when the state was reeling under the impact of worst floods in recent years.

"Though the party feels that chances of mid-term poll is meagre, it is not afraid of facing the electorate in case the Lok Sabha elections are held early," RJD Secretary General Ramdeo Bhandary said.

On the organisational front, the party decided to amend its constitution to extend the tenure of the party president from two years now to three years.

The RJD recently re-elected Prasad as its chief at a national convention in Varanasi and the newly 28-member team of national office bearers met for the first time today.