An excerpt from a new book reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how Rabri Devi unexpectedly became the Chief Minister of ...

Yadav had first zeroed in on his party MP Kanti Singh, backing her election as the RJD legislature party leader.

When RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, then Bihar chief minister, began scouting for his successor in June 1997 amid a likelihood of his arrest in the fodder scam case, his wife Rabri Devi was not his ...