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Supreme Court must oversee Vyapam probe: AAP
New Delhi, July 5
The AAP on Sunday targeted
the Madhya Pradesh government over the Vyapam scandal, demanding the
Supreme Court must oversee the SIT's probe into it after a television
reporter covering the scam died under mysterious circumstances.
"It
is sad that one of our journalist friends has died while reporting the
Vyapam scam," Aam Aadmi Party spokesman Dilip Pandey told the media
here. "Vyapam is no longer a scam, it has become a 'narsanhar'
(massacre)."
He said the Supreme Court should oversee the probe presently being conducted by a Special Investigation Team.
Pandey also said that both Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Governor Ram Naresh Yadav should be sacked.
"How
can we expect a fair probe from the governor (who is overseeing the
SIT) when his own name is in the FIR of the Vyapam scam?" asked the AAP
leader.
The AAP reaction followed Saturday's death of a New
Delhi-based television reporter, Akshay Singh, in Madhya Pradesh's
Jhabua district while he was covering the story.
Pandey said that
the AAP would stand by the journalist's family, while also intensifying
its agitation against the central and Madhya Pradesh government in
connection with deaths in Vyapam scam.
"AAP MPs will raise this matter in parliament in its monsoon session starting from July 21," he said.
Meanwhile
Madhya Pradesh AAP convener Alok Agarwal demanded a CBI probe monitered
by the Supreme Court in the Vyapam scam. "A SIT probe should also be
launched to investigate the deaths in the Vyapam scam," he demanded.
AAkshay
Singh was cremated here on Sunday, the event attended by his family, a
large number of journalists and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
The admission and
recruitment racket in the Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal
(Vyapam) or the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board apparently
involves politicians, officials and businessmen.
AMore than 40 people associated with the scam have died since 2013.
The
most high-profile death was of Shailesh Yadav, son of the Madhya
Pradesh governor Ram Naresh Yadav. Shailesh, 50, was found dead at his
father's residence in the Uttar Pradesh capital on March 25.