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Line 109: ==Smear campaigns== On ~~July~~ 23, July 2018, an article in [[Dainik Jagran]] cited former Super 30 students who said that only three students from the program had passed the IIT JEE exam that year, contrary to Kumar's claim that 26 had passed.<ref name=" India Today">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/India/story/patna-super-30-anand-kumar-1293475-2018-07-23\|title=Patna's Super 30 mentor Anand Kumar accused of deceit to gain popularity\|date=2018-07-23\|magazine=[[India Today]]\|access-date=2018-07-23\|language=en-US}}</ref> The report also claimed that students who sought to enroll in Super 30 were pushed to enroll in another coaching center called Ramanujan Institute of Mathematics, a for-profit coaching institute, on the pretext that Kumar would coach them if they performed well. Furthermore, the article alleged that by asking IIT aspirants to enroll in Ramanuj Institute, Kumar made over ₹1 crore annually.<ref name="India Today" /> Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Current Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly [[Tejashwi Yadav]] spoke in favor of Anand Kumar and said that "propaganda is being run in media influenced by feudal mindset to discredit and defame Anand Kumar." Former Union Cabinet Minister [[Shatrughan Sinha]] has also spoken in Kumar's favor on [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/super-30-mentor-anand-kumar-gets-support-from-tejashwi-yadav-shatrughan-sinha-amid-charges-of-fabrication/1264394/\|title=Super 30 mentor Anand Kumar gets support from Tejashwi Yadav, Shatrughan Sinha amid charges of fabrication\|date=2018-07-31\|work=The Financial Express\|access-date=2018-10-07\|language=en-US}}</ref> In August 2018, ''[[The Hindu]]'' reported that Kumar and his school are frequently the focus of faked [[smear campaigns]], and identified the potential sources of the fabricated stories that appeared in the [[Dainik Jagran]] newspaper in July.<ref name="thehindu2018">{{cite web\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/bihar-super-30-founder-faces-smear-campaign/article24754008.ece\|title=Bihar Super-30 founder faces smear campaign\|author=Amarnath Tewary\|website=[[The Hindu]]\|date=22 August 2018\|access-date=5 June 2019\|quote=When asked who is behind all this, he quipped, "everyone knows in Patna who is he…why should I take his name?" Is the former DGP Abhyanand who was earlier associated with Super-30 for five years? Mr. Kumar did not respond.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/banker-jailed-for-86-days-for-no-crime/articleshow/66141077.cms\|title=Banker jailed for 86 days for 'no crime' in Bihar\|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]\|date=10 October 2018\|access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>

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