Patna: Rabri Devi is running the show at 10 Circular Road, with her husband Lalu Prasad in jail.

Normally, Lalu meets visitors every day. On Thursday evening, The Telegraph found Rabri surrounded by visitors. "Every day, Saheb's (Lalu's) well-wishers and party workers gather here from morning to evening," Rabri said.

Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav is not in Patna and Tej Pratap meets youth wing leaders at 3 Deshratna Marg house, leaving Rabri alone at 10 Circular Road.

Visitors came and touched her feet. "We have to make the party stronger," Rabri tells them. "There is a meeting on January 6. You have to come."

A worker said: "Madam, Lalu is Mandela, who became president after going to jail..." Rabri told him: "People like you are Lalu ji's real strength."

Asked about her health, Rabri said she was diabetic and was concerned about Lalu, who, too, is diabetic. "Many a time, Saheb asks the cook to prepare kheer and sewai after I go to sleep," Rabri said. "He is careless when it comes to sugar. I have sent a few edibles for him in jail but am not sure if it reached him."