In 1990, former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav had threatened senior BJP leader LK Advani of dire consequences if the latter took out the Ram Rath Yatra. Yadav has made the revelation in his yet-to-be-released autobiography, ‘Gopalganj to Raisina-My Political Journey’.

Advani’s plan, writes Yadav, was "pregnant with the grave possibility of driving Bihar back to 1989” and he went to Delhi to confront the senior leader. Bihar had seen the Bhagalpur riots in 1989 -- triggered by RSS-BJP’s Ramsheel Puja -- in which, the RJD supremo says, 250 villages in and around the silk city were demolished with victims being mostly Muslim weavers.