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Why Vyapam will be Opposition's Vietnam ?

Opposition parties such as Congress, JDU, AAP  etc have been crying murder over the so called Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh. Lets first understand this 'Vyapam scam' ..

What is Vyapam Scam ?
Vyapam is a local board in Madhya Pradesh that conducts competitive exams. The current scam is about 326 students who got impersonators to take exams in their place. After clearing the exams, they got preferential job allotments. Scam has 2 parts first is impersonation and second is non merit based job allotments ... 

Issue #1 - Impersonation ...
Impersonation in examination is not limited to Madhya Pradesh ... its a national and an international issue ...Just Google ' Examination Impersonation' and see the results ... 

Example - In Bihar 1000 fake candidates were found impersonating during exams a couple of months ago .. you can read the story here

There is no state in India where impersonation does not happen. It is estimated that in any competitive exam , 20-30% of candidates are impersonators. The problem is so huge that Government of Gujarat, BITS and many other organisations use technology such as biometric validations, answers sheets with unique bar codes etc to prevent exam malpractice 

Issue #2 - Non Merit based job allotments
This again is a problem that plaques all of India. Recently each minister in the AAP government in Delhi was found to have given jobs to hundreds of their friends, family and supporters. Arvind Kejriwal himself has appointed a staff of 150+ friends some of them at a salary of 1lac+/month i.e. more than a MP's salary.

Deaths related to Vyapam
Every Tom, Dick and Harry are throwing out numbers of those dead linked to Vyapam. The 40+ number is not validated. Indian Express's report reveals a story behind the deaths. Ananth Rai the so called whistle blower of the scam is also on record that there number of suspicious deaths would not exceed 10. You can read his interview here

Shivraj Chouhan has done a politically astute move by asking for a CBI intervention .. let the investigation cover all states and all cases of impersonation and non merit based job allotments. The trail will inevitably lead to the fake degree scam as well. Once the trail begins .... many a politician will have no place to run or hide. It will in the end turn out to be the Opposition's Vietnam ... 

As for the media ... they will stop reporting once the trail moves to a non BJP state ... just as in LalitGate.

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant ... time to throw some light on the murky world of education ....When all is said and done, we will thank Shivraj Chouhan for starring this investigation ....




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