Though Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the arrest warrant issued against the State Chief Secretary Avani Vaish by the National Commission for SC, the issue has snowballed into a major controversy in the state with both BJP and Congress trading charges against each other.

Perhaps, it was for the first time that the arrest warrant was issued against the State's topmost officer by the NCSC on the issue of promoting officers of general category against the reserved posts.

"The decision of the High Court on the issue of NCSC warrant has made things crystal clear," parliamentaray affairs minister Narottam Mishra said.

However, the NCSC Member Mahendra Boudh while talking to PTI defended the Commission's decision on the issue saying that it has followed all legal procedures before issuing the arrest warrant with the permission of the Chairman.

Taking the issue further, Boudh said that the Commission has recommneded to the Union Home Ministry to probe the issue through any independent agency as the State Government has violated the laws of reservation twice in the year 2006 and 2008 respectively.

Criticing the Congress for using constitutional bodies for settling political scores, Narottam said, "in politics there is always a scope for differences and opposition, but such attempts will damage the federal structure of the country." .


Congress should not use constitutional bodies as a weapon for settling political scores and because of such growing practices independent institutions like CBI are being called as 'Central Bureau of Congress', the Minister said.

However, defending the Congress, State Congress spokesman K K Mishra said "since BJP leaders and its ministers have created a record of corruption and are fully aware that their future will be spent in courts and jail, they are levelling baseless allegations at an independent, impartial and honest agaency like CBI and NCSC."

Mishra alleged that in order to hide the atrocities on Dalits in none other than the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's village, Jait, the ruling party has staged a 'full drama' by allowing Dalit women to sing bhajans in a temple, when the NCSC team went there to probe reports in this regard.

"I bet that this drama must have got over soon after the visit of NCSC team to the Jait village as everybody knows what is the real situation in villages specially in the BJP-ruled states," he said.

"They are free to say anything about the independent agencies of the country, but people of the state are fully aware of their designs," Mishra added.