College students Say Missed Examination Due To Pawan Kalyan’s Convoy, Cops Reject Declare
Hyderabad:
Thirty college students in Visakhapatnam couldn’t attain their examination centre and did not take the engineering entrance examination, apparently after being delayed by the convoy of Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan. The upset mother and father at the moment are voicing their concern in regards to the long-term affect on their youngsters’s educational futures.
Actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan holds the essential science and expertise portfolio.
College students from the Pendurthi AI Digital JE Superior programme — who had been taking the Joint Entrance Examination (Fundamental) which determines admissions to Nationwide Institutes of Expertise (NITs) — stated with the visitors blocked, that they had reached their examination heart late. All 30 had been turned away from the examination corridor gates and never allowed to take a seat for the examination, they stated.
B Kalavathi, the mom of a scholar, claimed that her son was delayed as a result of visitors restrictions enforced for Pawan Kalyan’s convoy. “We had been caught in visitors. It was halted as a result of Kalyan was on his approach to Araku,” Kalavathi was quoted as saying by information company Press Belief of India.
One other guardian stated he appealed to the Deputy Chief Minister to contemplate rescheduling the examination for the affected college students.
In a press launch, the All India College students’ Federation (AISF) blamed the officers for inefficient visitors administration throughout examination hours. The scholars had missed the chance to put in writing the examination via no fault of their very own, it stated.
Karthik Yellapragada, the spokesperson of the opposition YSR Congress, stated the state “deserves a greater science and expertise minister”. “The actor-politician, true to his cinematic picture, continues to deal with public workplace like a press launch occasion… It’s time that we cease clapping to cinematic moments and begin demanding actual accountability,” he added in a video message.
NDTV has contacted Pawan Kalyan’s workplace however has acquired no response.
In a put up on X, town police claimed the scholars had been anticipated to achieve the examination centres by 7 am and had these 30 college students been on time, there was no query of their being held up by visitors.
“As per the admit card of the above-mentioned examinations, each candidate has to report at 07:00 am and the gate of the examination centre can be closed at 8:30 am,” learn a tough translation of their put up.
The Deputy Chief minister, the police stated, “handed via the stated junction at 8:41 am”.
“Due to this fact, it’s clear that the motion of the Deputy CM via that space at 8:41 AM has nothing to do with the late arrival of the scholars who had been presupposed to report at 7 am,” the put up learn.
Site visitors on the BRTS Street and Gopalapatnam-Pendurthi Service Street has not been stopped until 8:30 am to make sure free motion of the candidates to the examination centre, the police stated.
“Furthermore, for the reason that graduation of those examinations on April 2, if we have a look at the primary shift on every examination day, the variety of absent candidates (together with latecomers) on the centre was 81, 65, 76 and 61, which implies that the variety of absent college students (together with latecomers) is much less at the moment,” it added.
