Boiling Bihar: BPSC aspirants demanding re-exam lathi-charged, FIR towards Prashant Kishor

Stress gripped jap India state of Bihar the place hundreds of Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC) aspirants who congregated to protest and search the cancellation and re-test of seventieth BPSC preliminary exams held on December 13, had been lathi-charged by police.

On Sunday, hundreds of BPSC aspirants gathered at Gandhi Maidan in Bihar’s capital metropolis Patna to demand for the re-examination and meet Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to debate the deadlock.

FIR towards Prashant Kishor

On Sunday afternoon, the protesters had been joined by Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor at Gandhi Maidan. He stayed there for an hour, throughout which he prolonged his help to protesting BPSC aspirants and known as for an finish to systemic corruption in Bihar’s examinations.

Kishor, who might be actively collaborating within the upcoming Bihar election and tackle Nitish Kumar and his celebration, even criticised the Bihar CM for prioritising a non-public go to to New Delhi over addressing the issues of the youth in his state.

“The chief minister doesn’t have time to hearken to the grievances of the protesting aspirants and has gone to Delhi. The protest will proceed until their demand for the cancellation of the examination is just not accepted. I’m at all times with the protesting college students”, Kishor stated.

He additionally proposed that college students start a “relay quick” to scale back the variety of individuals risking their well being for the trigger.

Quickly after he left, in direction of the night, the protesting BPSC aspirants made an try to march in direction of the chief minister’s residence which resulted in police motion, district Justice of the Peace Chandrashekhar Singh stated.

DM Singh additional stated that the protesters tried to leap over barricades whereas marching from Gandhi Maidan in direction of JP Golumber.

Because the scuffle between the protesters and police intensified, the cops resorted to lathi-charge and used water cannons to disperse the gang.

“The protesters gathered at Gandhi Maidan regardless of the administration’s warning that any demonstration there could be thought-about unauthorised. The district police has registered an FIR towards 21 recognized individuals, together with Prashant Kishor, his celebration president Manoj Bharti, city-based tutor Ramanshu Mishra and 600-700 unknown individuals for organising a gathering of scholars at Gandhi Maidan even after denial of permission by the authorities”, Singh was quoted as saying in a report by PTI.

Additionally, some protestors had been detained by the cops close to JP Golumber after they refused to vacate the roads.

Singh additional stated, “Water cannons and delicate pressure had been used to disperse protestors as a few of them blocked site visitors by mendacity on the roads close to JP Golumber.”

‘Bihar govt delicate in direction of youth’s issues’

“The federal government has been delicate in direction of the issues of the youth. The chief secretary has agreed to fulfill a five-member delegation authorized by BPSC aspirants who’ve been urgent for an viewers with the CM or some extremely positioned official. However protestors appeared to be disorganised and unable to appoint 5 individuals,” DM Singh stated.

Calls for of protesting BPSC aspirants in Bihar

The protests in Bihar started on the day the prelim examination was performed on December 13 and over the time, have obtained help from activists, educationalists and politicians particularly from the Opposition events such because the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, CPI (M-L), and Jan Suraaj.

BSPC aspirants protesting in Gandhi Maidan and different elements of the state have been demanding the cancellation of the seventieth Built-in Mixed Aggressive (Preliminary) Examination (CCE), 2024 performed by the BPSC over allegations of query paper leak.

As per the allegations by the candidates who appeared for the seventieth Built-in Mixed Aggressive Examination (CCE) performed by BPSC, there have been similarities between the questions within the examination and mannequin papers from teaching institutes. Additionally they complained in regards to the poor high quality of the query paper.

It began when on the day of the examination, a disturbance occurred on the Bapu Pariksha Parisar (Bapu Examination Complicated) in Patna, the place the query papers had been delayed. Following this, BPSC determined to re-conduct the examination for 12,000 candidates who appeared for the check on the centre on January 4, 2025.

Quickly after on December 18, protests took an even bigger kind the place college students gathered in giant numbers, demanding the entire cancellation of the BPSC examination. The candidates additionally argued that re-examination in only one centre could be unfair.

A number of college students who appeared for the examination famous that the questions on the recruitment examination matched with mannequin papers offered by teaching institutes.

With inputs from businesses.