Rabri Devi (born 1959) served three terms as the Chief Minister, of Bihar, India, as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party, between 1997 and 2005. She is the wife of the Indian politician Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar and former Railway Minister of India. Devi has subsequently beenm^[when?] a Member of the Legislative Council for Bihar Vidhan Parishad.^{[citation needed]}

Rabri Devi Yadav was born to Sib Prasad Chaudhary of Salarkalan, Line Bazar, Gopalganj.

Devi's appointment as the Chief Minister of Bihar was considered as one of the most unexpected and awkward decisions^{[citation needed]} of the entire Indian political history because she was a traditional housewife and had no interest nor any prior experience in politics until then.^{[citation needed]} The move fitted well with the needs of the government in power at the time as Lalu Prasad Yadav had to quit as the Chief Minister of Bihar after the Fodder scam was revealed, but he was alleged to have been controlling the affairs by giving his wife the coveted post of the head of the state government.^{[citation needed]} It was alleged that he continued to act and administer as a de facto chief minister with his wife being a ceremonial head.^{[citation needed]} She became the first woman Chief Minister of Bihar on 25 July 1997.

Tavleen Singh ( तवलीन सिंह् ) is a noted Indian syndicated columnist and political reporter and writer.

Singh was born in Mussoorie in 1950 and studied at the Welham Girls School. She did a short-term Journalism course from the New Delhi Polytechnic in 1969. She completed her education in India and started her career with a reporting job at Evening Mail, Slough (England), where she worked and trained for two and a half years under the Westminster Press/Thompson training scheme.

Singh returned to India in 1974 to work with The Statesman as a reporter and went on to do several stories on communal riots, elections and wars. In those days such topics were covered mainly by male reporters.

She joined The Telegraph as Special Correspondent in 1982, mainly covering Punjab and Kashmir. She did the first known interview with Bhindranwale during this time and won the Sanskriti award in 1985 for her reporting of Punjab.

In 1985 and also in 1987 she became the South Asia correspondent of the Sunday Times, London. Subsequently she became a freelancer and started writing for India Today and The Indian Express. Her column in The Indian Express became the first political column to be written by a woman.

Anirudh Prasad, who goes by the alias of Sadhu Yadav, is an Indian politician and a brother-in-law of Laloo Yadav, the leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and sometime Chief Minister of the state of Bihar.

As a member of the RJD, Yadav was a member of the Bihar Legislative Council in 2001 and was also a Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly prior to being elected in 2004 as a Member of Parliament for the Gopalganj constituency. He left the RJD after a dispute with the party leader, his brother-in-law, Laloo Yadav, that related to allocation of constituencies between that party and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). The Gopalganj constituency had become a reserved seat and an LJP candidate, who had not previously been successful in elections, was preferred to Yadav elsewhere. Two days after leaving the RJD, in March 2009, Yadav joined the INC and was unsuccessful in gaining re-election to the Lok Sabha - the lower house of the Parliament of India - when he contested the Champaran Lok Sabha constituency.

Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati: નરેન્દ્ર મોદી; born 17 September 1950) is the current Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat. Born in a middle class family in Vadnagar, he was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and his wife Heeraben. He has been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since childhood also having interest in politics since adolescence. He holds a master's degree in political science. In 1998, he was chosen by L. K. Advani, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to direct the election campaign in Gujarat as well as Himachal Pradesh.

He became Chief Minister of Gujarat in October 2001, promoted to the office at a time when his predecessor Keshubhai Patel had resigned, following the defeat of BJP in the by-elections. His tenure as chief minister of Gujarat began on 7 October 2001, and he is the longest serving Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat. In July 2007 he became the longest serving Chief Minister in Gujarat's history when he had been in power for 2063 days continuously. He was elected again for a third term on 23 December 2007 in the state elections, which he had cast as a "referendum on his rule".

Nitish Kumār (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician who has been a Union Minister and is the Chief Minister of Bihar, an eastern state of India, since 2005. He belongs to the Janata Dal (United) party. As Chief Minister, he gained popularity by initiating a series of developmental and constructive activities including building of long-delayed bridges, re-laying roads that had ceased to exist, appointing over 100,000 school teachers, ensuring that doctors worked in primary health centers, and keeping crime in check.

Nitish Kumār was born in Kalyanbigha, Bihar to Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh and Parmeshwari Devi. His father was a freedom fighter and was close to the great Gandhian Bihar Vibhuti Anugrah Narayan Sinha, one of the founders of modern Bihar. His nickname is 'Munna'. He is a teetotaler, does not smoke, and is a frugal eater.

He has a degree in electrical engineering from the Bihar College of Engineering, Patna now NIT Patna. He joined the Bihar State Electricity Board, but almost halfheartedly, and later moved into politics.