MPPEB scam: Shivraj Chouhan files defamation case over Cong allegations

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday confirmed to ANI that a defamation case has been filed over allegations by the Congress that his wife was involved in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam. [caption id=“attachment_1586371” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Shivraj Singh Chouhan confirmed he had filed a defamation case over the MPPEB scam allegations. AFP[/caption] Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh had on Sunday accused Chouhan of allegedly being involved in the teacher recruitment scam in the state, a charge rubbished by the MP government as “untrue.” Meanwhile, addressing BJP workers at Khajuraho during the two-day session of BJP MLAs which concluded on Sunday, Chouhan had said that the party leaders are not required to bow their heads in shame as his government has not done anything wrong. The Chief Minister had also said that the Special Task Force (STF) was probing the case and truth would come out in the matter. “We have verified all information about allegations and have made all preparations to file a defamation case and would give statement in the court,” Chouhan told reporters at the party office, without taking any name. State Congress chief spokesman KK Mishra had last week demanded a CBI probe to unearth the “nexus among middlemen, politicians, bureaucrats and education mafia which is behind the scam.” He claimed he was in possession of some SMSes which were purportedly sent by various people, including politicians and even some journalists among others, to the MPPEB exam controller Pankaj Trivedi and the system analyst Nitin Mahindra, both the main accused in the case, and mining baron Sudhir Sharma. Over 100 students who cleared the Pre-Medical Test (PMT) allegedly through unfair means had also been arrested by STF from different districts of Madhya Pradesh. https://twitter.com/ANI_news/status/481334555215802370