Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress (MPYC) staged massive protest in the State capital on Wednesday demanding resignation of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Governor Ramnaresh Yadav for their alleged involvement in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam.The protestors were jointly led by MP Congress Committee president Arun Yadav, All India Youth Congress president Amrindar Singh Raja Brar and MPYC president Kunal Chowdhry.
The protestors also tried to lay siege at State assembly, but the attempt was foiled by police, who used water cannons to disperse them. The other demands of the protestors were roll back of new land acquisition act, electricity and manure for farmers and non passing of the benefits of the fall in international crude oil prices to the people.Notably, Congress leaders, including Arun Yadav, Kunal Chowdhry, laxman Singh, brother of AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh, and others addressed the gathering and dubbed the irregularities as the biggest scam of Asia and bigger than the Bihar's fodder scam.
They alleged that Chouhan's name had figured repeatedly in the original excel sheet seized from computer of a top MPPEB official Nitin Mohindra, but was eventually struck out.The leaders said the names of the high and mighty, who had recommended undue favours for their candidates to crack the professional examinations and recruitment tests too figured in the original document.They alleged the original excel sheet was doctored to strike out the name of Chouhan and that many people, including former State minister laxmikant Sharma who is in jail, are being prosecuted on the basis of the fudged excel sheet.