{"id":328798,"date":"2020-11-19T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328798"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:10:15","slug":"bihar-education-minister-resigns-over-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-education-minister-resigns-over-corruption-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar education minister resigns over corruption allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328799 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/mewalal-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/mewalal-1.jpg 511w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/mewalal-1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/mewalal-1-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/>Newly-appointed Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary on Thursday tendered his resignation following allegations of corruption against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He resigned from his cabinet post, barely three days after being sworn in as a member of the Nitish Kumar cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chaudhary, who belongs to the JD(U) headed by the chief minister, sent his resignation immediately after assuming charge today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Choudhary was among the 14 ministers who were sworn in on Tuesday as part of Nitish Kumar&#8217;s new term as Bihar chief minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A case was filed against Choudhary back in 2017 after allegations that he was involved in irregularities in the appointments to posts of assistant professors and junior scientists at Bihar Agricultural University as the vice-chancellor of Bhagalpur agriculture university.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-appointed Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary on Thursday tendered his resignation following allegations of corruption against him. He resigned from his cabinet post, barely three days after being sworn in as a member of the Nitish Kumar cabinet. Chaudhary, who belongs to the JD(U) headed by the chief minister, sent his resignation immediately after assuming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,13713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328800,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328798\/revisions\/328800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}