By IANS
Patna : Pramila Kumari Manjhi, the estranged wife of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Rajesh Kumar Manjhi, Monday challenged him to undergo DNA tests after he claimed, in his divorce petition, that he was not the father of one of her sons.
Manjhi filed a divorce petition in Gaya district civil court last week and said that Pramila had been married before and one of her sons was from her previous marriage. He also charged that Pramila misbehaved with his parents and was defaming him for money.
“I challenge him to go for a DNA test along with my children to ascertain the truth,” Pramila told IANS.
Pramila said only a DNA test would prove whether he is the father of her children or not. “A scientific test like DNA will expose his claim that he was not the father of one of my sons.”
She admitted that she was married before but said Manjhi was the father of her sons. “Manjhi has been lying all along and making false allegations to get rid of me since I raised objection to his extra-marital relationship,” she said.
A parliamentary committee was set up after Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee received a complaint Dec 15, 2006, from Pramila, alleging the misuse of the railway pass issued in her name.
She alleged that another woman was availing of medical facilities meant for her as spouse of Majhi. She said her husband had married the woman without divorcing her.
A few months ago the committee had recommended the MP’s suspension for three months from parliament. Manjhi represents the Gaya parliamentary constituency.
Pramila works as an anganbari sevika (day care centre volunteer) in Bodh Gaya after her politician husband deserted her. “I stayed over a year with my parents at a village in Jehanabad district and later shifted to Bodh Gaya,” she said.