Sitaram Kesri
Kesri was a part of the famous Young Turks of Bihar Congress, during the independence movement along with Bindeshwari Dubey, Bhagwat Jha Azad, Chandrashekhar Singh, Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Kedar Pandey and Abdul Ghafoor – all future Chief Ministers of Bihar.In the first week of November 1997, part of the Jain Commission's report inquiring into the conspiracy angle of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi was leaked to the press.It was reported that the Jain Commission had indicted Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for its ties with the LTTE, the organisation involved in the assassination of Gandhi.When no alternative government could be formed, the Lok Sabha was dissolved, paving the way for midterm elections.[5] After the electoral defeat, Kesri was stripped of his post in March 1998 by the Congress Working Committee.Kesri's tenure also saw the defection of many high-profile Congress leaders like G. K. Moopanar, Gegong Apang, Madhavrao Scindia & Mamata Banerjee.