Patna:
Amid the stalemate over demand for cancellation of a current aggressive examination in Bihar, an in depth aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday asserted that it has acquired no proof, up to now, of query paper leak.
The averment got here from Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, one of many senior-most ministers within the state cupboard, a day after the chief secretary spoke to a delegation of protesters, in a gesture aimed toward breaking the impasse.
Talking to reporters, Mr Chaudhary mentioned, “The federal government couldn’t have acted with higher readability. The highest official gave a affected person listening to to the aggrieved celebration. However, to my data, no proof of query paper leak has been furnished up to now.” “So, as of now, we maintain that there was no paper leak. That is additionally the stand of the general public service fee. One examination centre had witnessed some disturbances and a re-examination has been ordered for the candidates who had been affected,” the minister mentioned.
“However clearly, there was a conspiracy. Rumours of query paper leak had been unfold, however no one knew the place was it leaked, and to whom. These behind this performed with the way forward for younger college students. They have to be unmasked,” he mentioned.
The minister’s assertion was according to the stand taken by the BPSC over the matter.
The Mixed Aggressive Exams had been held on December 13 when lots of, all of them on the Bapu Pariksha Parisar within the state capital, boycotted the check alleging that the query paper had been leaked.
The fee has since ordered a re-examination for over 10,000 candidates who’ve been requested to look for recent check at completely different centres within the metropolis on January 4.
Nevertheless, the fee has additionally held the view that the examination was held correctly on the remaining 911 centres throughout Bihar with no complaints from over 5 lakh candidates.
However, a bit of aspirants have launched an agitation, holding that re-examination have to be ordered for all of the centres to make sure “degree enjoying discipline”.
The stir, which comes lower than a 12 months forward of meeting polls, has acquired assist from all political gamers against the state’s ruling NDA, together with Jan Suraaj Social gathering based by Prashant Kishor, who has been labelled as “the federal government’s B workforce” by the primary opposition celebration RJD.
Kishor, who had on Sunday led an illustration that led to crackdown by police, has urged the protesters to carry their horses until January 1 and resume their agitation if the federal government fails to provide you with a constructive response.
In the meantime, leaders of the CPI(ML) Liberation tried a ‘Raj Bhavan march’, solely to be thwarted by police nicely forward of the high-security space the place the governor resides.
The Left celebration was joined within the procession by allies, Congress, CPI and CPI(M).
In an announcement, the CPI(ML)-L alleged police “misbehaved” with these collaborating within the procession, together with Sudama Prasad, the sitting MP from Arrah, and MLC Shashi Yadav.
Later, the celebration added, “Upon a proposal acquired from the Raj Bhavan, a memorandum was submitted to the governor’s principal secretary Robert L Chongthu by a five-member delegation.” Calls for raised within the memorandum included inquiry into the alleged paper leak and motion towards officers who could have been accountable for a similar.
The delegation included legislative celebration leaders Mehboob Alam (CPI-ML), Shakil Ahmed Khan (Congress), Ram Ratan Singh (CPI) and Ajay Kumar (CPI-M).
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