Rabri Devi
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Rabri Devi (born 1959) has served three terms as the Chef Minister, of Bihar, India, as a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. She's married to Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav.
She became the first woman chief minister of Bihar on July 25, 1997; her first term ended on February 12, 1999. Her second term ran from March 9, 1999 to March 3, 2000. Her third (and longest) term began in on March 11, 2000, and ended in 2005 Template:Fact, when her party suffered great losses in state elections.
Rabri Devi was born in 1959 in the family of Sri Sib Prasad Chaudhary of Salarkalan, Line Bazar, Gopalganj. She married Laloo Prasad Yadav in 1973 at the age of 14. She has two sons and seven daughters.
The appointment of Rabri Devi as the Chief Minister of Bihar came under severe criticism, because she was nearly illiterate [1] [2] and had little experience or interest in politics. [3]
It has been claimed that she can't understand the official documents that are read to her, and that the administration of Bihar was actually carried out by her husband Laloo Prasad Yadav, even during the periods when he was in jail, having been convicted and sentenced on corruption charges; she and her husband dispute this allegations.
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