Tej Pratap Yadav takes brother in law along for official meetings

Patna, Aug 20: Ministers in Bihar seem to have a penchant for allowing the presence of their close relatives at official events. The new 'Mahagathbandhan' government in the state is embarrassed over photographs, clicked a few days ago, in which minister for environment, forestry, and climate change Tej Pratap Yadav is seen along with his brother-in-law at a meeting with department officials.

 

 

 

According to department sources who did not wish to be named, Shailesh Kumar, who is married to Yadav's eldest sister Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha MP herself, had come to the office on Wednesday to congratulate his wife's younger brother upon securing a cabinet berth.

 

 

 

Yadav, never known to be a stickler for norms, asked the brother-in-law to take a seat beside him until the meeting was over and the two could have a chat, they said. Ministers in Bihar seem to have a penchant for allowing the presence of their close relatives at official events. The new 'Mahagathbandhan' government in the state is embarrassed over photographs, clicked a few days ago, in which ministers for environment, forestry, and climate change Tej Pratap Yadav are seen along with his brother-in-law at a meeting with department officials. According to department sources who did not wish to be named, Shailesh Kumar, who is married to Yadav's eldest sister Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha MP herself, had come to the office on Wednesday to congratulate his wife's younger brother upon securing a cabinet berth. Yadav, never known to be a stickler for norms, asked the brother-in-law to take a seat beside him until the meeting was over and the two could have a chat, they said.

 

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Last year, the then minister for animal husbandry and fisheries Mukesh Sahani was in the soup after he deputed his brother to inaugurate a department function since he himself could not attend.