- Bihar’s newly-appointed education minister Mewalal Choudhary resigned just three days after taking oath amid corruption charges in appointments as VC of Bihar Agricultural University.
- With this, Mewalal created a sort of record of being the “shortest serving minister” as he remained the education minister for less than two hours after assuming the charge of the post.
- A one-member inquiry committee, set up by the then governor-cum-chancellor of universities, Ram Nath Kovind had charged Mewalal with committing large scale bungling, favouritism, interpolation, manipulation, addition and subtraction in academic points of the candidates, changing the remarks, and violating the provision of statute in selection of assistant professors-cum-junior scientists.