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Bhopal, July 7: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today agreed to CBI probe into snowballing examination scandal that has hit his government’s credibility with people connected to the case dying mysteriously.
Chouhan announced the decision at a hurriedly-called press conference and his government filed a plea in the state high court to allow CBI probe into the Vyapam scam that saw widespread rigging of competitive exams for entry into Madhya Pradesh’s professional education institutes, with everybody from students and politicians to bureaucrats and doctors under suspicion.
“In a democracy, the ruler should be above suspicion,” he said. “There are questions on people’s minds…I bow my head to people’s wishes.”
