Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Youth Congress workers staged protest here on Sunday, demanding arrest of state minister Vishvas Sarang in connection with the nursing college scam being probed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The police used water cannons to disperse protesters who tried to breach barricades, an official said. He said the agitation was held without prior permission and 15 protesters were detained to maintain law and order.
Protesters led by state Youth Congress president Mitendra Darshan Singh demanded arrest of the then medical education minister Vishvas Sarang in the alleged scam. The CBI is probing the scam pertaining to gross irregularities in the functioning of several nursing colleges in the state that lacked infrastructure while some existed only on paper.
The youth wing's media cell chief, Vivek Tripathi, alleged that Sarang, BJP leaders and officials were involved in the scam, and the government was trying to protect them. Sarang should resign from the post and face the CBI investigation, he said.
Sarang, the medical education minister in the previous BJP government, holds the sports and youth welfare portfolio, at present. The state government last month revoked recognition of 66 colleges in 31 districts after they were found unfit to run.
