The Srijan scam continues to rock Bihar politics. On Wednesday, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch, Lalu Prasad Yadav accused Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar for “trying to cover up” an alleged scam, involving an NGO, with the help of his “hand-picked officials” in the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
“The chief minister is trying to cover up the scam with the help of his hand-picked officials in the SIT, who are either destroying evidence or hiding them from public view,” he told reporters.
Claiming that the comptroller and auditor-general (CAG) had raised concern over the “corrupt” act of the NGO, the ‘Srijan Mahila Sahyog Samiti‘, in Bhagalpur as early as in 2008, Prasad alleged that “the state government headed by Kumar glossed over it”.
Pointing to the death of a key accused in the “scam”, Mahesh Mandal, on late Sunday night, he alleged that “like the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, people are being mysteriously killed in connection with the NGO scandal….”
