Patna, March 7 -- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launched a scathing attack on RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and said that the latter appointed his wife, Rabri Devi, as the CM when he was jailed in 1997 in connection with the fodder scam.

"You (RJD leaders) are from the party in which a husband made his wife the CM. They (RJD) have made you (women MLAs of RJD) the MLA, but have you done any work for the women? How much work have we done for the women? Do you people (RJD) understand that? You people are in the party which has done nothing for women," Nitish Kumar said in the Bihar Assembly.

In 1997, Lalu Prasad Yadav made his wife the Chief Minister when he was forced to resign as the CM after an arrest wa...