The Supreme Court will take up tomorrow pleas for a CBI probe in the Vyapam scam as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan declared today that he would also back such a request in the apex court but ruled out resignation from the post.
All eyes are on the Supreme Court which is scheduled to take up a batch of petitions for ordering a CBI probe into the multi-crore scandal after the Madhya Pradesh High court today deferred hearing on a state government's plea for a probe by the central agency.
Saying the apex court would hear similar petitions tomorrow, the High Court, where the state government filed a plea yesterday for a CBI probe, deferred the hearing till July 20.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was in Delhi, dismissed demands for his resignation saying the Congress and other parties have been demanding it right from the day he became chief minister more than 10 years ago.
He maintained that none in the party top brass had asked him to plead for a CBI probe.
"My leadership trusts me fully and that is something I am proud of. Noone told me that I should request for a CBI probe. I felt the need for it myself as an air of suspicion was being created in the last two or three days," Chouhan told PTI.
"We requested the (Madhya Pradesh) High Court that the probe should be done by CBI. The matter is likely to come up before the Supreme Court tomorrow. We will make the same prayer there too.
"The Congress and the opposition cannot tolerate the path of progress under me in Madhya Pradesh. They have been demanding my resignation from the beginning. They are bringing disrepute to Madhya Pradesh," he said.
