Singhdeo writes to PM against Min Kedar Kashyap

     Raipur, August 05, 2015: Leader of Opposition in Chhattisgarh Assembly and senior Congress leader T S Singhdeo today wrote a letter to the Prime Minister after wife of School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap was caught in an examination scandal.

     Someone else appeared in the examination instead of Shanti Kashyap, wife of Chhattisgarh School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap, said Singhdeo.

      Bringing that fact before the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singhdeo in his letter demanded immediate sacking of Kedar Kashyap from the ministry of School Education.

     At the Lohandiguda Government Higher Secondary School of Bastar District, in the final MA English examination yesterday instead of Shanti Kashyap someone else had appeared in the exam.

     When officials reached the Centre and started probing the identity of the girl who was appearing for Shanti, the girl slipped out of the room silently without revealing her original identity.

       Lohandiguda Tehsildar had also reached the School and initiated action on the matter, officials said.

     Vice Chancellor of Pandit Sundarlal Sharma Open University, Bilaspur, Bansh Gopal Sharma has also ordered a probe into the matter.    

     However, when asked School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap has said he was not aware about the controversy over someone else had appeared in the examination in place of his wife Shanti.