14/08/2014

 

Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi confesses paying bribe

 

 


Patna,(BiharTimes): This was  big enough an embarrassment for Nitish Kumar when his own party chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi said that corruption was so rampant in his state that he had to pay bribe to get his work done. Kumar always made toll claim regarding his initiatives to contain corruption in government set up.

Manjhi openly confessed that he had to pay bribe to get his inflated electricity bill corrected.

He said,” We received a bill of Rs 25,000 at his house in Gaya against the regular bill of Rs 5,000 every month. But later it was corrected after paying bribe”

This all happened when he was a minister in Nitish Kumar’s government.

However later on his initiative, economic offence wing officials raided the house of that officer and property worth crores were unearthed.

While addressing rural development officers on Tuesday, Manjhi praised Nitish Kumar for making political workers honest but govt. officials kept on making money through corrupt means.

RJD’s national vice-president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh also supported Manjhi observation and said,” Corruption in Bihar will not end simply by the coming together of these two leaders (Lalu and Nitish)) BJP state president Mangal Pndey said.”If Manjhi as minister had to pay a bribe, then one can imagine the fate of the general public,”

Earlier, Nitish Kumar has taken steps to confisticate property of corrupt government officials and later opening schools in those buildings. Perhaps all these measures failed to deter corrupt govt. officers of Bihar.

 

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