Bihar education minister Mewalal Choudhary resign hour after taking charge
In a series of tweets, Tejashwi Yadav had accused four-time Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of appointing "criminals" to retain power in state.
Patna: Bihar Education minister Mewalal Choudhary resigned after the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal flagged a three-year-old corruption case against him and questioned why he was inducted in the government, report said .
A criminal case was filed against the JD(U) MLA from Tarapur back in 2017 after allegations that he was involved in irregularities in the appointments to posts of assistant professor and junior scientists as the vice-chancellor of Bhagalpur agriculture university.
The case was filed and investigations conducted against him after sanction from President Ram Nath Kovind, who was then the Governor of Bihar. No chargesheet has been filed against him yet.
In a series of tweets, Tejashwi Yadav had accused four-time Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of appointing “criminals” to retain power in state.
“Power is protecting criminals… Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has granted exemption to loot and robbery by appointing Mewalal Chaudhary… the Chief Minister will continue his discourse on Crime, Corruption and Communalism to save his chair… None of the minority communities were made ministers,” he posted.
Accusing the Chief minister of scripting a “drama” of the induction and resignation of a “corrupt” minister, Mr Yadav today tweeted, “The real culprit is you. Why did you make him a minister ?? Your duplicity and gimmick will no longer be allowed to run”.
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
Mr Yadav, whose party has won the maximum number of seats, said in another tweet that the mandate was order to the RJD to warn the Chief Minister against “corrupt policies, intentions and rules”.
“Just a resignation will not do now. There is also the matter of finding 19 lakh jobs and many issues of public concern like contracts and equal work-equal pay,” he tweeted.
