Ruler JD (U) in Bihar demanded on Saturday that RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav refrain from becoming the leader of the opposition as his name was involved in a series of criminal and corruption cases.
The JD (U) lawsuit came two days after the party’s leader, Mewa Lal Chaudhary, resigned as state education minister over a taint of corruption.
In a joint press conference here, JD (U) State President Vashishtha Narayan Singh, Acting President Ashok Choudhary, and spokesmen Sanjay Singh, Neeraj Kumar and Ajay Alok criticized Yadav for targeting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the appointment of Mewa Lal Chaudhary as the Minister of Education.
Shortly after the resignation of Mewa Lal Chaudhary, Yadav had attacked the prime minister for bringing a “corrupt” person into his cabinet.
Chaudhary has been named in an RIS filed three years ago in connection with recruitment irregularities at an agricultural university in the Bhagalpur district while he was vice chancellor during 2010-15.
JD (U) leaders claimed that Chaudhary’s resignation, just two days after he was awarded the portfolio, was in line with the prime minister’s “zero tolerance for crime, corruption and communalism”.
They said that unlike the clean record of the prime minister, who is also JD (U), Yadav bore the stain of a series of cases “brought under various sections of the IPC and even the SC / ST Act.”
They noted that the state government has asked the police superintendent of the district in question to continue the prosecution, which showed that Chaudhary, an MLA from the ruling party, was not protected. The governor’s consent is expected in this regard.
The leaders of JD (U) alleged that while presenting his nomination papers from the Raghopur assembly seat, Yadav had not disclosed all the details of the cases in which he was appointed and urged the Electoral Commission to take note of the “deliberate omission”.
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