What is a Bihar election without a dash – actually, fistful – of crime? So, while parties refrained from giving tickets to the most notorious criminals, they replaced them with their spouses. Here are profiles of the famous don-wives who contested the election and kept their husbands’ criminal legacy in Bihar’s politics well and truly alive. All parties tried to make the most of the Don Dynasts, some won and some lost but as Ravi Shastri would say — crime was the real winner.

Design: Mahima Singh with inputs from Hansa Malhotra