One of the reasons for Ram Bai’s influence is the way numbers are stacked up in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly. In the 2018 assembly election, the Congress, with 114 MLAs, emerged as the single-largest party and formed the government with the support of ‘Others’—one MLA of the Samajwadi Party (SP), four Independents and the two BSP legislators, including Ram Bai.
Her support critical to the survival of the Nath government, Ram Bai, 40, soon began asserting herself. Videos surfaced of the lawmaker purportedly threatening officials with dire consequences if her ‘demands’ were not met. The Nath government allotted her a ‘B’ type bungalow, usually meant for ministers and senior bureaucrats. But Ram Bai’s real brush with infamy was yet to come.
On March 15, 2019, Devendra Chaurasia, a businessman and local politician from Hatta town in Damoh district, was murdered at his bitumen plant on the outskirts of Hatta. The Damoh zilla panchayat member had switched over from the BSP to the Congress three days before his death. Ram Bai’s husband Govind, her brother-in-law Chandu, nephew Golu and cousin Lokesh were among the seven booked for the murder. Ram Bai terms it a political conspiracy against her.
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