These strongmen – called Bahubalis – have fielded their wives in the LS polls in a bid to control “fiefdoms” by proxy. Many others already enjoy such power by getting their wives elected as mukhiyas (village heads), earning the moniker of “Mukhiya Patis (mukhiya husbands)”. Just before being sent to jail in the fodder scam in July 1997, Lalu had installed wife Rabri as CM.

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“The girl’s body was found on Tuesday night. A short post-mortem suggests she was physically assaulted,” Jabalpur (Rural) Additional Superintendent of Police Sonali Dubey told PTI over the phone