Live! Bihar's mid-day meal horror: Cook's complaints of quality of oil ignored

July 17, 2013 17:59

Bihar's education minister PK Sahi tells the media that the opposition was trying to pay play politics over the issue. "Don't blame us. I personally went there and moved the critical students to a better hospital in Patna. The
principal of the school, Meena Kumari has been suspended. Her husband is very close to a prominent political leader," he says.

Sahi said that the cook had complained about the quality of the cooking oil but the principal told her to use it anyway. The children had also complained about the meal. He said forensic reports are awaited, but the government suspected the involvement of a political party.

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