patnabegusarai from homemaker to legislator to bihars social welfare minister kumari manju verma 49 made her way up the ranks drawing on the goodwill and connections of her fatherinlaw sukhdeo mahto she is the secondterm mla from cheria bariarpur in begusarai district manju resigned as a minister in nitish kumarled government on wednesday after media reports about her husbands alleged connection and telephonic conversations with brajesh thakur who is accused of 34 minor girls rape at the governmentfunded children home run by his ngo at muzaffarpurmanju has been in the news since shiba kumari singh wife of incarcerated child protection officer cpo ravi kumar raushan of muzaffarpur childrens home alleged on july 25 that vermas husband chandeshwar verma used to visit the shelter home often verma said shiba was trying to implicate her husband in the case before she was elected jdu mla from cheria bariarpur in 2010 verma was associated with ljp and rjd in begusarai district earlier while her children were in school she spent a few years in patna where she ran a beauty parlour her fatherinlaw sukhdeo mahto was elected from the same constituency in 1980 on a cpi ticket his connections with cm nitish kumar led to jdu fielding her from cheria bariarpur in 2010 drawing on the votes of the kushwaha caste verma defeated ljp candidate anil kumar mahto in a close contest in 2010 and repeated the feat in the 2015 assembly elections during her political journey as legislator and later minister its been her husband who has been by her side her political adversaries said chandeshwar accompanied to official functions and often acted as a ministerverma had earlier denied the allegations against her husband and said he visited the childrens home once if my husband is found guilty i will hang him to death myself she had said in state legislative council on july 26chandeshwar has also refuted the allegations saying he visited the childrens home only once after verma became social welfare ministersince the wife of the arrested cpo has made a direct allegation against manjus husband a thorough inquiry should be conducted the cm is trying to defend his minister and her husband people want to know the relation between manjus husband and brajesh thakur who ran the shelter home in muzaffarpur rjds maner mla bhai virendra had saidrajendra choudhary a cpi leader said its not unbelievable and shocking that chandeshwars name had cropped up in the muzaffarpur sex scandal he is a man of dubious character he said