Amid the rising warmth over the Bihar Public Service Fee examination protest, the Patna Police on Sunday booked 20 named and 600 unnamed people for inciting college students and inflicting chaos. Amongst these booked embody Jan Suraj Celebration chief Prashant Kishor and the state chief.
In accordance with the data, the FIR has been registered within the Gandhi Maidan Police Station in Patna. Earlier within the night, the protestors began the march to encircle Chief Minister Nitish Kumar‘s residence throughout which the scholars and police got here face-to-face. A minor altercation erupted after the scholars broke the barricade. Nonetheless, the authorities knowledgeable that the chief secretary of the Bihar authorities would meet a delegation of 5 members concerning the calls for of the scholars.
Following the announcement of negotiations, Kishor referred to as upon college students to cease the protest till the negotiations happened. Kishor stated, “The federal government officers current right here have assured us that the federal government has agreed to debate the calls for of the scholars and the five-member college students’ committee will go and speak to the Chief Secretary proper now in order that some determination may be taken on the issues and calls for of the scholars… If after speaking to the Secretary, the scholars or the coed group of BPSC candidates are usually not happy, then tomorrow morning a call will likely be made on the additional protest…I might request the scholars to not do something proper now that’s not authorized… If the choice is just not in favour of the scholars, if any injustice is completed to the scholars, then we are going to stand with them with full power…I’m with the scholars…”
Nonetheless, the scholars continued to protest and refused to go away the agitation website. One of many aspirants stated, “We do not wish to be the sufferer of their (political leaders) politics…We’ve got just one demand, we wish re-examination…An try is being made to divert the problem…We do not need politics on this problem, we solely need re-exam…”
Taking motion, the police used water cannons to disperse the gang of protestors and a minor lathi cost was additionally used. Speaking about police actions, Patna Central SP Sweety Sahrawat stated, “There was no lathicharge, they (candidates) had been repeatedly requested to maneuver from right here… We instructed them to place their calls for in entrance of us, we’re prepared for talks, however they remained adamant. The candidates pushed the administration… In the long run we had been pressured to make use of water cannons. Even in that, we intervened and eliminated them, however even then they didn’t transfer. Now we’re getting the place vacated.”
The candidates have been protesting for greater than per week searching for the cancellation and re-examination of the seventieth Built-in Mixed Aggressive (Preliminary) Examination (CCE), 2024 performed by the BPSC over allegations of query paper leak. The protesters have been staging a dharna at Gardani Bagh for a number of days. They contend that cancellation must be ordered throughout the board since re-examination for only one centre would go towards the precept of a “stage taking part in subject”