SHILLONG: Jailed CMJ Vice Chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha who was contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Jhanjharpur constituency of Bihar lost the elections.
Jha was one of the twenty candidates who contested the election from Jhanjharpur constituency and secured only 7468 votes whereas BJP’s Birendra Kumar Chaudhary secured only 255016 votes.
CM Jha University vice chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha was arrested last month in the Madhubani district of Bihar by Meghalaya Police with assistance from Bihar Police and he was contesting the election as an independent candidate.
Jha was arrested while he was on his way to attend an election rally in Bihar.
Jha was wanted by Meghalaya police for his much controversial CM Jha University which was accused of awarding fake PhD degrees to 434 candidates in the 2012-13 academic year, and enrolling 490 students for the PhD programme for 2012-2013, even as only 10 of its faculty members in the university had doctorates.
The Supreme Court in March this year had cancelled its earlier interim order on anticipatory bail granted to Jha who was under the scanner of the State CID. On July 19 last year the Supreme Court granted an interim protection for Jha after he had made a prayer for anticipatory bail in the apex court following rejection of his bail application by the High Court of Meghalaya.
Former Meghalaya Governor RS Mooshahary contested the election on All India Trinamool Congress ticket and he secured 17537 whereas Independent candidate whereas Naba Kumar Sarania got 634428 votes.