New Delhi : Former union minister and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, who is appearing for the petitioners in the Vyapam scam, has said that the scandal has emerged out of the RSS desire to infiltrate the state government.
”This is not just about manipulating the admission tests to medical and engineering colleges. The wider and more dangerous objective is the desire of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh to have its men in government jobs. It wants that teachers, police inspectors and all Class III posts should be filled by their men. This effort is not just restricted to Madhya Pradesh and it extends to other states as well, including Gujarat,” he said while addressing an event organised by the Madhya Pradesh Foundation to felicitate the whistleblowers.
Last week, when the Supreme Court directed that the investigation into the multi-layered admission cum recruitment scam in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (Vyavasaik Pariksha Mandal) and the 45 mysterious deaths associated with it should be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Sibal led a battery of lawyers on behalf of the petitioners.
Sibal disclosed that when the whistleblowers came to them with their data, as lawyers they got the veracity of the hard disk verified from a private lab. “Armed with the report of this lab, we went to everyone — the prime minister, the chief minister — the special investigation team, and the Supreme Court. But everyone side stepped this evidence, even the Supreme Court did so in the first instance,” he added.
He attributed the recruitment scam to the RSS and the admissions scam to the weaknesses in the education sector. “Every parent who can afford it wants his children to study either medicine or engineering. The competition for admission in these colleges on merit is very stiff. So money plays a role in these admissions and all the other things come as a fall out,” he added.
“Colleges have this practice of granting admissions on considerations other than merit. Down south this has been happening for several years. But in Madhya Pradesh, for the first time, this has been happened with the patronage of the state government,” said the senior lawyer.
