Demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, members of the National Students Union of India (NSUI) took to the streets here on Friday protesting over the MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam.
The NSUI members who were trying to cross barricades near the State Assembly to lay siege to the Assembly were detained by the police which led to a scuffle and forced the police to use water cannon to disperse the agitating mob. They marched on the streets with posters and banners and shouted slogans.
Three NSUI members sustained minor injuries. Around 65 protestors were arrested by the police during the protest. State Congress president Arun Yadav, Congress leader PC Sharma, State president of NSUI Vipin Wankhede and district president Virendra Mishra and around 500 party workers were present during the protest.
leader of Opposition in the State Assembly Satydev Katare and State Congress president Arun Yadav while interacting with the media persons alleged that the Chief Minister is not willing to conduct a CBI enquiry into the MPPEB examination scam and is not resigning from his post on moral grounds and until these things are not going to happen the Congress would continue to stage these protests.
In the wake of the protest, barricades were erected at several places on the road from Red Cross Square to State Assembly building. Earlier, Congress leader Rajnath Singh had also filed a petition in the Jabalpur High Court against Chief Minister.
The Madhya Pradesh recruitment scam or MPPEB scam pertains to manipulation in the selection process for Government jobs conducted by the MPPEB, which is being probed by the Special Task Force (STF). The STF had on December 18 lodged two FIRs against former State Technical Education Minister laxmikant Sharma and 129 others in connection with alleged irregularities in the examination for the recruitment of Grade II and III contractual teachers conducted by MPPEB.