RJD reminds CM Nitish of shelter home case after Edu Min resigns over corruption charges

Hitting out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after newly appointed Education minister Mewalal Choudhary resigned over corruption allegations, RJD has said that JDU is attempting to give impression of taking a moral high-ground even though y created problem in first place. In a tweet on Thursday, RJD accused Nitish Kumar of appointing a corruption-tainted politician in his cabinet and dismissed his resignation as a 'farce', stating that if Nitish would be "clean", he would take retirement from politics after Muzaffarpur Shelter Home case. 

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Muzaffarpur Shelter Home Case

In May 2018, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) submitted a report to Bihar government highlighting alleged sexual abuse of 34 mir girls in shelter home. shelter home was funded by ministry for social welfare under JDU's Manju Verma and her husband Chandrashekhar Verma h close ties with owner of a newspaper who ran shelter home - Brajesh Thakur. Verma h resigned in August 2018 and spent six months in jail in ar case under arms act. However, in elections this year, JDU fielded her from Cheria Bariarpur constituency in Begusarai, but she lost to RJD’s Raj Vanshi Mahto by a massive margin of 40,897 votes. Earlier, after a CBI probe, a Delhi court in February h convicted Thakur in shelter home case, but neir Manju r Chandrashekhar were mentioned in charge sheet.

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Mewalal Choudhary steps down

Three days after being sworn-in as Bihar's education minister, JDU MLA Mewalal Choudhary, resigned on Thursday, after CM Nitish Kumar asked him to do so. Mewalal Choudhary was booked in 2017 under IPC sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B, for alleged discrepancies in appointment of 167 assistant-cum-junior scientists at Bihar Agriculture University at Sabaur in Bhagalpur, while he was vice-chancellor of university between 2010 and 2015. Replacing Mewalal, Goverr Phagu Chouhan has appointed JD(U) Bihar chief Ashok Choudhary as education minister on CM Nitish Kumar's recommendation.

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While Mewalal Choudhary has dismissed allegations against him, Tarapur MLA has declared same in his election affidavit. RJD too slammed Choudhary for his defence, demanding Nitish Kumar to explain if a charge sheet will be filed by his government in this case. RJD leer Tejashwi Yav called Choudhary's resignation a farce, calling Nitish Kumar 'too tired to govern'. Nearly 70 percent of MLAs in Bihar’s newly elected assembly have criminal charges against ir names, ranging from murder and attempt to murder to kidnapping and crime against women.

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