PM should not remain silent, people want him to speak on Vyapam: Kejriwal

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should "no more remain silent" over the Vyapam scam.

"People want Prime Minister to speak and intervene in Vyapam. PM should no more remain silent," he said in a tweet.

A journalist from a Delhi-based TV channel who was covering the recruitment scam in the Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal (Vyapam) fell ill and died in a hospital on Saturday, officials said.

Akshay Singh of TV channel Aaj Tak died in Jhabua on 4th July, in the afternoon. He was in Madhya Pradesh for coverage of the recent deaths due to the scam in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) or Vyapam.

On Sunday, AAP targeted the Madhya Pradesh government over the Vyapam scandal, demanding the Supreme Court must oversee the SIT's probe into it after the television reporter covering the scam died under mysterious circumstances.

"It is sad that one of our journalist friends has died while reporting the Vyapam scam," Aam Aadmi Party spokesman Dilip Pandey told the media. "Vyapam is no longer a scam, it has become a 'narsanhar' (massacre)."

More than 40 people associated with the admission and recruitment racket in Vyapam or the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board have died since 2013 - either in mysterious circumstances or have committed suicides.