Workers of the Youth Congress in Madhya Pradesh staged a protest here on Sunday, demanding the arrest of state Vishwas Sarang in connection with the alleged nursing college scam being probed by th𒀰e Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The police used water cannons to disperse protesters who t♈ried to breach the barricades, an 💞official said.
He said the agitation was held without prior permission, and 15 proteꦅsters were detained to maintain law and order.
Protesters led by Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress president Mitendra Darshan Singh demanded the arrest of the then medical education minister Vishꦗvas Sarang in the alleged scam.
The CBI is probing the scam pertaini🌄ng to gross irregularities in the functioning of several nursing colleges in the state that lacked infrastructure while♓ some existed only on paper.
Singh claimed the scam was carried out in connivance with BJP leaders, and the fight will continue till all the aඣccused are arrested.
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 t💦he sports and youth welfare portfolio in the present dispensation.
The state government last month revoked the recognition of 66 colleges𒈔 in 31ꦐ districts after they were found unfit to run. Following the directives of the MP High Court, the CBI is probing the scam.
