Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Raghavji today resigned from his post after an obscene CD purportedly featuring him surfaced and a police complaint by his servant alleging that he was being sexually exploited by the Minister. <br /><br />The 79-year-old minister submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who forwarded it to state Governor Ram Naresh Yadav for acceptance, official sources said. <br /><br />Chouhan is learnt to have asked Raghavji to resign after an obscene CD purportedly featuring him surfaced and the minister's servant filed a police complaint yesterday against him alleging that he was being sexually exploited. <br /><br />Raghavji had set a record by presenting the state budget for 10 years in succession from 2004 to 2013. <br /><br />The sources said that Chouhan has asked Water Resources Minister Jayant Malaiyya to look after the finance portfolio. <br /><br />Describing the incident as unfortunate, Leader of Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay Singh said that in politics "moral corruption" was a much worse thing than corruption.
