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Kalpnath Rai grooms wife Sudha Rai for greater things

This wife is being groomed for greater things. Sudha Rai - without a doubt Kalpnath Rai's better half - made her political debut in 1996. She didn't stand for elections. She was campaigning for her husband.

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