The Congress in Madhya Pradesh today attacked Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and even his wife over the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam.

The Congress in Madhya Pradesh today attacked Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and even his wife over the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam.

Times Now reports Congress has stepped up pressure after after his confidante and former Secretary Prem Prasad was called in for investigations. Now Congress has even alleged Choudan's wife Sadhna Singh was also involved along with other relatives and the party is demanding the MP CM's resignation.

Meanwhile the Congress had yesterday demanded a CBI probe into alleged Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam relating to use of fradulent means in premedical tests and recruitment to government services.

A CBI probe is needed to unearth the "nexus among middlemen, politicians, bureaucrats and education mafia which is behind the scam," the chief spokesperson of state Congress unit KK Mishra told reporters.

"This mega scam was going on in the state because of the close nexus among the middlemen, politicians, bureaucrats and education mafia. There is a need to conduct a detailed probe into the scam which is possible only by handing it (the probe) over to CBI," Mishra said.

Mishra 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.

While both Trivedi and Mahindra were arrested, Sharma is absconding. The Special Task Force (STF) probing the scam had already announced a reward of Rs 5000 for any information on Sharma.

Mishra also showed a "list" which he claimed is of candidates who had appeared in the examination for the post of contractual teachers, conducted by MPPEB, on "recommendations of influential politicians including union minister Uma Bharti and Raj Bhawan".

Over 100 students who allegedly cleared the Pre-Medical Test (PMT) through unfair means had also been arrested by STF from different districts of Madhya Pradesh.

PMT was conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) whose top officials were already arrested by STF since the scam surfaced in 2013.

With PTI inputs