How Clean is Nitish Cabinet? Have a Look

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IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, July 29: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday expanded his cabinet and 27 new ministers took oath – 14 from his JD-U and 13 from ally BJP. Most of the ministers are MLAs. As per their affidavits submitted with the Election Commission of India ahead of the 2015 Bihar Assembly polls, more than 15 of them had criminal cases pending in the courts. However, their case status on this date is not known.

The charges they were facing included theft, extortion, attempt to murder, forgery, criminal intimidation and illegal payments in connection with election.

Khurshid of JDU was facing 5 cases while Jay Kumar Singh of the same party was facing 4 cases.

Among BJP ministers, Pramod Kumar was facing 7 criminal cases while Krishna Kumar Rishi 6 such cases.

At least five of the new ministers had declared zero cases pending in courts against them.

Out of 243 MLAs, 142 (58%) had declared criminal cases pending in courts against them – 98 of them serious criminal cases, as per the analysis of ADR and Election Watch.

But their case status on this day is not known. Maybe, many of them have been cleared of charges in the last two years and many others could still be facing trial in court.

On 26th July, Nitish resigned as Chief Minister in the wake of the corruption charges levelled against his ally and deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav but within hours on the same day, he forged alliance with BJP and next day morning took oath as CM with BJP’s Sushil Kumar Modi as deputy CM.

Some of the Ministers who took oath on 29 July 2017
Party
Constituency
Cases as per affidavit of 2015 Assembly polls
Bijendra Prasad Yadav
JDU
Supaul
0
Krishna Nandan Prasad Verma
JDU
Ghosi
0
Shrawan Kumar
JDU
Nalanda
1
Jay Kumar Singh
JDU
Dinara
4
Maheshwar Hazari
JDU
Kalyanpur (SC)
0
Shailesh Kumar
JDU
Jamalpur
1
Santosh Kumar Nirala
JDU
Rajpur (SC)
2
Manju Verma
JDU
Cheria Bariarpur
0
Khurshid alias Firoz Ahmed
JDU
Sikta
5
Madan Sahni
JDU
Gora Bauram
1
Kapil Deo Kamat
JDU
Babubarhi
1
Dinesh Chandra Yadav
JDU
Simri Bakhtiarpur
1

Prem Kumar
BJP
Gaya
1
Pramod Kumar
BJP
Motihari
7
Nand Kishore Yadav
BJP
Patna Sahib
1
Ram Narayan Mandal
BJP
Banka
1
Suresh Kumar Sharma
BJP
Muzaffarpur
1
Vijay Kumar Sinha
BJP
Lakhisarai
2
Rana Randhir Singh
BJP
Madhuban
0
Krishna Kumar Rishi
BJP
Banmankhi (SC)
6
Ramesh Rishidev
BJP
Singheshwar (SC)
1
Brij Kishor Bind
BJP
Chainpur
1

Data source: myneta.info

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