PATNA: Bihar Minister of Education Mewalal Choudhary on Thursday he resigned three days after taking the oath in the middle of corruption charges in appointments as VC of the Agricultural University of Bihar.
Speaking about the corruption allegations against him, Mewalal said: “An accusation is proven only when a charge sheet is filed or an order is issued by a court and neither is there to prove the accusations against me.”
RJD on Wednesday lashed out at Nitish Kumar for appointing Mewalal Choudhary as education minister despite facing corruption charges and demanding that he be fired.
“Has Prime Minister Nitish Kumar awarded Mewalal Choudhary for corruption and given him the freedom to loot?” he asked in a tweet.
Choudhary was suspended from the JD (U) led by Nitish Kumar in 2017 after an FIR was registered against him for alleged irregularities in appointments during his tenure as Vice Chancellor of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour in Bhagalpur district.
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