Shivraj Singh Chouhan asks for CBI probe into Vyapam, Congress wants him out

Bhopal: In a dramatic U-turn, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday announced he had recommended a CBI probe into the Vyapam recruitment scam, but the Congress insisted that he must resign for a fair investigation.  

A day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the CBI need not probe the scandal that has reportedly claimed several lives and a day after Chouhan himself didn't sound too enthusiastic about the CBI, the chief minister made a sudden volte-face. Addressing the media in Bhopal, a grim looking Chouhan said he was dispatching a letter to the Madhya Pradesh High Court requesting that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) be allowed to probe the scandal. "In a democracy, the ruler should be above suspicion," he said. "There are questions in people's minds. People want to know ...