Overview
- Education Minister Sunil Kumar said the case has been returned to the Bihar State University Service Commission for its opinion, with posting decisions to follow only after the UGC’s inquiry report.
- Authoritative sources noted a discrepancy between 'Ashok Kumar' on educational certificates and 'Ashok Choudhary' on the election affidavit.
- The higher education department stated that Choudhary’s PhD from Magadh University still requires scrutiny under the UGC’s 2009 regulations.
- Choudhary was among 274 candidates recommended by the BSUSC for assistant professor posts in political science, but Pataliputra University listed his status as “kept waiting.”
- Opposition leaders, including Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari, publicly questioned his credentials as the government stressed that appointments are made by the commission, not the department.