MPPEB scam: Cong activists held for trying to gherao Assembly

A large number of activists gathered at Lily Talkies square here and held a protest meeting organised by the Youth Congress on the issue

Around 100 activists of Congress were today arrested for trying to lay siege to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly demanding resignation of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Professional Examination Board scam with police using water cannons to disperse them.

"We have arrested around 100 protesters," DIG Sriniwas Verma told PTI.

A large number of activists gathered at Lily Talkies square here and held a protest meeting organised by the Youth Congress (YC) on the issue.

A string of Congress leaders, including its state unit chief Arun Yadav, Youth Congress president Kunal Choudhary, Laxman Singh, brother of AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh, and others addressed the gathering and dubbed the irregularities as the "biggest scam of Asia and bigger than the Bihar's fodder scam".

They alleged that Chouhan's name had figured repeatedly in the original excel sheet seized from computer of a top MPPEB official Nitin Mohindra but was eventually "struck out". The leaders said the names of the "high and mighty" who had recommended undue favours for their candidates to crack the professional examinations and recruitment tests too figured in the original document.