Party general secretaries Mohan Prakash and Yadava Reddy told newspersons that party president Sharad Yadav has rushed to the spot and the agitational programme would be finalised tomorrow, they added.

Claiming that 12 partymen were shot dead and 20 others injured, some of them seriously, Mohan Prakash said the ``massacre'' would prove the last nail of the killer regime of Rabri Devi.

The JD leaders alleged that the killings were committed at the dictates of the Rabri Devi government which wanted to eliminate JD leaders in Bihar.

Refuting charges that demonstrators had gone berserk and police opened fire to quell the frenzied mob of rioters, Mohan Prakash said that police killed 80-year-old Ramcharit Yadav, five time MLA when he wassitting on the dias.

Asked to give names of those 12 killed as adminstration has admitted death of only four people the JD leaders said thay were collecting facts from the spot.

According to official sources, four people were killed when police opened fired on a rioting mob at Sitamarhi where JD workers had gathered to protest against indequate flood relief in north Bihar.

The Sitamarhi agitation was part of party's agitational plan at district headquaters throughout the state from August 9 to 19 to highlight price rise, Srikrishana committee report, failure of the Central government and local issues like floods in Bihar.

In the fresh programme the JD has planned to lock every district collectorate to cripple adminstration throughout Bihar.

Meanwhile, in Patna Sharad Yadav called for a statewide agitation to oust the Rabri Devi government.

Addressing a press conference before leaving for Sitamarhi along with other party leaders, Yadav said there was no option left to the people but to launch amovement against the state government.

Criticising the BJP-Samata Party combine, the JD national president alleged that they were trying to take undue advantage of the situation instead of keeping their promise to the people to dismiss the state government.

The agitation programme would be announced tomorrow at Sitamarhi, he said.

Describing the firing as unprovoked, he said the police action was reminiscent of the `Jalianwallabagh tragedy.'

Yadav sought cooperation of all like-minded political parties and youths to oust the RJD government which, he charged, had become synonymous with ``corruption, suppression and nepotism.'' He said, ``the fight this time will be taken to its logical conclusion.''

The JD president demanded a compensation of rupees five lakh to the next of kin of those killed and rupees one lakh compensation to those injured.

He also urged the government to provide job to at east one member of each of the families of those killed.

All over the state JD workers were beingvictimised and ``implicated'' in false cases by officials close to the ruling party, Yadav alleged.