"We perhaps made a mistake (by alloting the land) but we did not give him the status that he enjoys. When we make a mistake, we admit the mistake. We do not cover-up," party spokesman Tom Vadakkan said at a briefing today.
S Kulkarni, political analyst, said that that best thing now is to bring out whatever facts or figures that were not disseminated and have an objective debate on it. Ajoy Bose, resident commentator, also agreed that the PM now owes it to the country to reveal what went before.
The Supreme Court order for a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam triggered a fresh round of slugfest with Congress demanding that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan quit on moral grounds and BJP asking the opposition to stop doing politics over it.
According to reports, Modi and Singh discussed the government strategy to tackle the continued attack by the opposition over the issue. They also discussed government‘s plan to move Supreme Court for revocation of Lalit Modi‘s passport.