Lalu suffering from poll phobia : JD(U)

Patna, Oct 18 (UNI) The Janata Dal(United) today accused RJD chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad of suffering from poll phobia and trying to evolve a compromise between the UPA and Left to avert mid-term poll.

''Despite tall claims of maintaining his mass base in Bihar, Mr Prasad is suffering from poll phobia and making every effort to evolve a compromise between the UPA and Left parties to break the deadlock over the Indo-US nuclear deal and avert snap polls,'' party's national spokesman Shivanand Tiwari said here in a release.

He said Mr Prasad's 'extra effort' to avert a mid-term poll was a ''clear testimony to the fact that he had accepted defeat well before