Edu Minister will make him engineer: Tejashwi mocks Nishant Kumar's qualification

RJD national president Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday mocked the educational qualification of Health Minister Nishant Kumar, commenting that the Bihar Education Minister will surely make the JD(U) leader an engineer.

Kumar, who was elected to the Legislative Council earlier in the day, had disclosed in his affidavit that at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, he had completed "five out of the eight prescribed semesters up to 2001."

The former CM Nitish Kumar's son was earlier dubbed an engineering graduate like his father.

On the question of his qualification, Yadav sarcastically said, "I have full faith in Bihar's Education Minister that he will make Nishant Ji an engineer. One individual has become a professor; the other can definitely become an engineer."

He was alluding to Bihar minister Ashok Choudhary, who formally became an assistant professor in February, and delivered his first lecture in political science at AN College in Patna the next month.

The Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly also alleged that CM Samrat Choudhary has no degree at all, and there was confusion over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree.

"I, at least, did not lie. I disclosed my qualifications. Be it the Bihar CM or the nation's PM, they have concealed their genuine degrees and presented fake ones," Yadav said.

The RJD leader had, in the past, declared in his election affidavits that his highest educational qualification is Class 8 pass because he dropped out of Class 9 to pursue professional cricket.

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