The Opposition Congress here on Sunday said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP president Amit Shah should ask Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to resign in the light of Vyapam scam. Congress questioned Chouhan’s statements claiming credit for initiating probe into Vyapam scam, and alleged that he tried to “cover up” the scandal for many years. It claimed that though the first FIR was filed in 2009, but Chouhan did not admit that there were any irregularities till the second FIR was filed in the scam in 2014.
Terming Bhagwat’s arrival in Bhopal on Friday and Shah’s scheduled for Monday, as a move to cover up for the loss of image due to Vyapam scam, Congress general secretary Mohan Prakash, who is also in charge of the party’s affairs in Madhya Pradesh, said they should ask Chouhan to resign on “moral grounds”.“Sensing the possibility of being sent to jail, members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are scared since the Supreme Court of India has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the Vyapam scam,” Prakash told reporters here.“Vyapam is such a scam which doesn’t just involve financial irregularities but murders too,” he added.
The Supreme Court last week handed over the investigation into the scam to the CBI. It was earlier being probed by a Special Investigation Team under the supervision of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The high-profile scam was being probed by the Special Task Force under the monitoring of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Madhya Pradesh High Court before the Supreme Court ordered the CBI to investigate the scam which has rocked the nation with a spate of deaths of people associated with the scandal.Under the massive scam, hundreds of students secured admissions in MBBS course in government colleges allegedly through fraudulent means while a large number of candidates got jobs in government departments with the alleged collusion of bureaucrats and politicians.