Updated: November 19, 2020 5:10:34 pm
Mewalal Choudhary of JD (U) (Source: Facebook)
Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary resigned on Thursday three days after taking the oath amid allegations of corruption. He tendered his resignation after meeting with the chief minister, Nitish Kumar.
“An accusation is proven only when a charge sheet is filed or a court issues an order and neither is there to prove the accusations against me,” Choudhary was quoted as saying by the ANI news agency.
Bihar main opposition RJD he has been attacking the Chief Minister for appointing Choudhary as Minister of Education.
Addressing CM Nitish for development, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said: “You are the real culprit. Why did you appoint him minister? Their duplicity and trickery will no longer be tolerated. “
मैंने कहा था ना आप थक चुके है इसलिए आपकी सोचने-समझने की शक्ति क्षीण हो चुकी है।
जानबूझकर भ्रष्टाचारी को मंत्री बनाया
थू-थू के बावजूद पदभार ग्रहण कराया
घंटे बाद इस्तीफ़े का नाटक रचाया।असली गुनाहगार आप है। आपने मंत्री क्यों बनाया ?? आपका दोहरापन और नौटंकी अब चलने नहीं दी जाएगी?
– Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) November 19, 2020
Earlier, RJD MP and spokesperson Manoj Kumar Jha told The Indian Express: “The election of Mewalal Choudhary as education minister makes such a strong statement about the weakened position of the CM in the new post-verdict scheme of things. Bihar has received a clear message that nothing positive can be expected from the government with these kinds of options dominating the cabinet constitution. “
Jha said Nitish Kumar tried to adopt a “high moral ground” on a “no-case” of corruption when he left the Grand Alliance in 2017, toppling the coalition government with RJD and Congress.
The case concerns Choudhary’s tenure as Vice Chancellor of the Bihar Agricultural University in Sabaur in Bhagalpur. He and 50 other people had been hired for the first time in 2017 under sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of the IPC.
The matter concerned alleged discrepancies in the appointment of 167 assistant and junior scientists at the newly opened agricultural university during Choudhary’s tenure as VC between 2010 and 2015. He stated this in his 2020 election affidavit and was elected to the the board of directors of Tarapur in Munger. .
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