Dr Anand Rai and Ashish Chaturvedi have emerged as Heroes in MP Vyapam Scam

The Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal, or MP Vyapam Scam, Scam has exposed the dark core at the heart of India's growth story. It's both a natural consequence of several concurrent political and social trends of the recent past as well as an example of everything that is wrong with India. Here's how:

Rise of the aware citizen : Scams like this cannot be under the radar for long because of the Right to Information Act, an instrument of democratic participation that the UPA helped pilot and then lived - or rather died - to regret. Fortunately for citizens with a strongly developed conscience, RTI still works, despite the best attempts of those in power (including those who passed it) to subvert it. In MP Vyapam Scam, Dr Anand Rai of Indore and Ashish Chaturvedi of Gwalior have emerged as heroes despite the BJP's best attempts to smear them.

The national media's obsession with Delhi for politics and Mumbai for business and Bollywood: Yes, I know, I know, that's me too. As sociologist SS Jodhka says, this is a test for the national media because it's the first time this government is confronting a vocal media willing to stake lives in the quest for truth. How each reacts will set the stage for the terms of engagement for the rest of the BJP's term. So far, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to pass off his silence on MP Vyapam Scam as strong statecraft rather than a weak will to deal with corruption.

A flawed education system, even more flawed societal values: More than 1,000 admissions in Madhya Pradesh medical colleges have been revoked. Many of those dead are students who had got admission to various colleges by paying bribes, or job aspirants who tinkered with the recruitment tests. What does it say about the desperation of a generation that its parents will actually take loans to indulge in blatantly unethical practices? It's a tragic comment on both our education system as well as our values as a society that parents are demanding justice for their children after paying bribes. Palshikar says the lower rungs of the middle classes are willing to be complicit in any and all scams - because the economy and the state have very limited opportunities to offer them despite the dreams generated by possibilities of economic advancement. "This means that the unequal benefits accruing from economic policies and disproportionate expectations generated by those policies will enhance the social acceptability of mismanagement of state powers by the political elite." This is what Amartya Sen means when he talks of growth: That having an uneducated and unhealthy working population is not only bad for human wellbeing but also detrimental to steady and sustained economic growth. Not a single industrialised nation in the world has got to where it has without investing in human capital, he says, not even an authoritarian state like China. We aren't doing it, which is why there is a MP Vyapam Scam waiting to explode in almost every state. Everything that is wrong with Madhya Pradesh is wrong with India.

The emergence of family-driven politics wih a complete lack of public interest: This is most evident in the Akali rule in Punjab. The Akalis, a normally egalitarian party, has been completely taken over by the Badals and the Majithias, who take the business aspect of politics-as-family-business seriously. In MP Vyapam Scam, the mysterious death of Shailesh Yadav, son of Madhya Pradesh governor Ram Naresh Yadav, who was accused of taking money to help ten candidates from Bhind clear the exam for the post of contractual teachers, is an example of this blatant abuse of power. He is said to have conducted his business from Raj Bhavan in Bhopal. As noted political scientist Suhas Palshikar says, the scam shows the extent of cronyism and complete failure of politics to generate a sense of public interest. "That India's political class lives off rent seeking is often talked about but this complex scandal suggests that the relationship of politicians with ordinary people is increasingly becoming extractive. It shows that the political elite in India are increasingly becoming like the classical type of those who live off politics."



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