As 2 engineers and a clerk are suspended over NEET ‘leak’, Tejashwi says probe agencies free to question my PA

On Thursday, Bihar Deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha told reporters: “We have suspended superintending engineer Umesh Rai, junior engineer Dharmendra Kumar Dharmkant, and clerk Pradeep Kumar for allotting a room in the name of Sikander P Yadvendu for May 4, a day before NEET-UG examination… Call details show that Yadvendu had first called up Tejashwi’s Personal Assistant Pritam Kumar on May 1. On May 4, Pritam called up clerk Pradeep Kumar who allotted a room to Sikander after informing the two engineers.” Pritam, a Bihar Public Service Commission officer, was appointed as personal assistant to Tejashwi in August 2022 when he was the Deputy CM and continues to be in the same position when the RJD leader is now Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly.

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Tejashwi, who reacted for the first time following allegations against his personal assistant, told reporters: “They (NDA) have the government at the Centre and in Bihar. Investigation agencies are under them. They are free to speak to his PA. But BJP is trying to politicise the matter as EOU has not said anything like that.”

RJD national spokesperson Subodh Kumar Mehta said, “Rather than making insinuations against our party, BJP should answer how a dubious charcter like Sikander Yadavendu got the job of junior engineer during NDA regime in 2012 and how he was transferrred to urban development and housing department in 2021 when NDA was in power.”