BPSC protest: Bihar Police detains Prashant Kishor from Gandhi Maidan in Patna

Jan 06, 2025 04:59 AM IST
The Jan Suraaj founder has been quick unto loss of life since Thursday in reference to the BPSC query paper leak allegations.
The Bihar Police on early Monday detained Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor, who was sitting on an indefinite starvation strike at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, ANI reported.
The Jan Suraaj founder has been quick unto loss of life since Thursday to press for the demand for cancellation of the built-in seventieth mixed (preliminary) aggressive check carried out by the Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC) on December 13.
The protests, sparked by allegations of irregularities within the BPSC examination, have intensified after the federal government introduced a re-examination, which Kishor claimed was an acknowledgement of the errors that had taken place.
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“By conducting the re-examination, the federal government has legally accepted that irregularities have occurred with sure college students within the examination,” Kishor instructed ANI on Sunday.
He additionally pressed on the significance of addressing the problem swiftly for the welfare of the scholars, including, “The chief minister (Nitish Kumar) ought to meet the scholars relating to their calls for, that is within the curiosity of the state.”
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Kishor had additionally sought the assist of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav within the cancellation of the BPSC examination.
“These leaders are a lot greater than us. They will get 5 lakh individuals to collect on the Gandhi Maidan…that is the time to take action. The way forward for the youth is at stake. We’re confronted with a brutal regime which has ordered lathi cost 87 occasions in simply three years,” he was quoted as saying by PTI.
Earlier, the district administration filed an FIR towards Kishor and his “150 supporters,” asserting that the protest on the web site was “unlawful.”
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