Patna, 25 December (IANS). Bihar government minister and veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mangal Pandey spoke exclusively to IANS on Tuesday. During this, he targeted Bihar Assembly opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav and RJD. He said that during Lalu Raj, the corrupt used to get protection, whereas during Nitish Raj, action is taken.
Bihar government minister Mangal Pandey, targeting RJD, said, “The public will not believe the words of the opposition at all, because these are the same people who looted the treasury of Bihar. Because of this, they went to jail. Cases of registering the land of the poor. The entire family is still on bail. The public has not forgotten how the state was infamous at that time.”
Regarding Tejashwi Yadav raising questions on the government on the BPSC issue, the BJP leader said, “By making the BPSC exam an issue, Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav wants to wash away the stigma of his parents. He should tell whether it is not true that Dr. Lakshmi Rai, who was made the Chairman of Bihar Public Service Commission in January 1997 when he was the Chief Minister, had to go to jail on corruption charges?
Mangal Pandey said that “Dr. Lakshmi Rai was accused in the engineering admission scam of 1996. CBI investigation was going on on the scam allegations against her, yet Lalu Prasad made her the chairman of BPSC. On the basis of serious allegations and evidence. But in the year 2000, during whose tenure Ram Singhasan Singh, who had made BPSC a den of corruption, was arrested by the CBI (July). 2004) Under whose rule were the posts of administrative officials sold by charging huge sums of money?
He said, “Tejashwi, who shed crocodile tears about BPSC candidates, should tell why 8 BPSC employees including its Chairman Ramsinghasan Singh were arrested after the formation of the NDA government in 2005? They are trying to mislead the youth of Bihar on the pretext of paper leak. Tejashwi Yadav, who tried, should remember the tenure of his parents, the corrupt people got protection during Nitish Raj. it occurs.”
–IANS
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