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There is no gainsaying human potential, so the cackles generated by the name Sunny Leone topping a list of candidates for a junior engineer ’s post in Bihar are unwarranted. Even if the adult film actor — who coincidentally goes by the same moniker and has congratulated her namesake, is not known for her interest in engineering, she may well excel at scoring high. Judging potential and probability on the basis of merely a name is unfair. After all there are plenty of Subhash Chandra Boses and MK Gandhis today who hold posts that appear to be incongruous.Indeed, that may be why the egalitarian worthies involved in the recruitment process in Bihar saw nothing amiss in one Sunny Leone aiming to join the Bihar Public Health Engineering Department as a junior engineer (civil). Unfortunately, it appears prejudices have prevailed and higher authorities have launched an inquiry as they are convinced no Sunny Leone has applied.A guaranteed government salary for at least the next few decades and a pension after retirement — with the facility of leave to pursue suitable roles — would surely offset box office uncertainty. This comfort factor is probably a major attraction even for candidates not called Sunny Leone, including the other two in the list’s top three — Nirmal Chakraborty, son of Om Puri and bvcxzbnnb, son of mggvghhnnnn.