Stepping up its attack, the Congress on Monday said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan cannot escape responsibility for the deaths connected to Vyapam scam and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should take “moral responsibility“.
“The Chief Minister cannot be spared. He should take responsibility,” Congress spokesperson P.C. Chacko said.
His comments came after the Dean of a medical college in Madhya Pradesh involved in Vyapam scam probe was found dead in a Delhi hotel on Sunday. His was the second mysterious death in the scandal in as many days, adding yet another murky twist to the case.
“There must be a CBI probe. It is not a coincidence that all the accused are dying of one ailment or another. There is something more to it.” - Prashant Pandey, forensic expert and one of the whistle-blowers who exposed the scam
Insisting on a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam, Mr. Chacko said there are serious allegations against people close to Mr. Chouhan besides the family itself.
“The CM should ask for a CBI probe into the matter if he feels that he is in the clear,” he said.
Terming the spate of deaths of people reportedly associated with the case as “extremely intriguing and deeply suspicious”, the Congress demanded a Supreme Court-monitored CBI investigation.
Calling the Vyapam the “most sinister scam of India”, the party also claimed that the mechanism of SIT-STF combine has proved ineffective in probing the matter.
Mr. Chacko also took potshots at the Prime Minister saying he needed to take moral responsibility for what was happening in the country.
He added that the NDA government had offered a year back a corruption free and clean government, clean administration to the people. “That very same government and the party which is leading this government are now totally under the cloud of scams and corruption. The Prime Minister has to come out and explain,” he said.
