RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav has charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with “maintaining silence” over alleged irregularities in a PSC examination, claiming that current query paper “leaks” in such aggressive exams have been “state-sponsored”.
Slamming the federal government, RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav mentioned that the youths of Bihar will “show a mirror to NDA leaders” within the 2025 meeting polls, (Santosh Kumar/HT file picture)
In a video assertion late on Friday, the chief of the opposition within the meeting additionally accused Kumar of “failing” to speak with job aspirants who staged protests over the alleged paper leak within the seventieth Built-in Mixed Aggressive Examination (CCE) 2024, performed by the Bihar Public Service Fee.
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Kumar’s “reluctance to communicate with students who were baton-charged by the police and slapped by an official of the Patna district” confirmed that the JD(U) supremo is a “tired man and unable to govern Bihar”, Tejashwi claimed.
“This government has failed in conducting any examination in the state without paper leaks …whether it is for class 10th, 12th, police constable recruitment exams or BPSC tests, questions papers are leaked before the examinations start. This government is least bothered about the welfare of students and youths,” the RJD chief alleged.
“I must say that these question paper leaks are state-sponsored. Why did the CM and two deputy CMs maintain silence over the issue? Those (aspirants) who protested against irregularities in the exam were baton-charged, slapped by an official of Patna and also sent to jail. It seems that bureaucrats are running the government in the state…This is not the government of the people,” Yadav claimed.
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The youths of Bihar will “show a mirror to NDA leaders” within the 2025 meeting polls, he mentioned.
“If we come to power after the 2025 assembly polls in the state, we will take care of students and youths. We will make arrangements for their (job aspirants) travel and stay during competitive exams. People are fed up with the NDA government in the state,” the RJD chief alleged.
Rumours of a leak of query paper of the Bihar Public Service Fee preliminary examination erupted at an examination centre on Friday, prompting the fee to warn of police motion towards these concerned within the “conspiracy”.
Round 300-400 aspirants boycotted BPSC’s seventieth Built-in Mixed Aggressive Examination (CCE) 2024 held on the Bapu examination centre at Kumhrar in Patna, alleging that the query paper was leaked on social media even earlier than the examination began.
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Chaos had prevailed on the centre the place a further examination superintendent, recognized as Ram Iqbal Singh, died of cardiac arrest and a feminine candidate fell unconscious on Friday.
Patna District Justice of the Peace Chandrashekhar Singh reached the examination centre upon listening to concerning the commotion.
The DM clarified, “It was never my intention to slap or hurt any aspirant There was a slight delay in the distribution of question booklets in one or two examination halls at the centre.”
“An aspirant was slapped by an official in Patna on Friday when the former was protesting against the alleged delay in the distribution of the BPSC exam question paper. It was highly condemnable,” Yadav claimed.
He additionally requested, “Why question papers were distributed almost an hour after the scheduled time? This is sheer injustice with the students”.
So far as the PSC preliminary examination, held on Friday, is anxious, BPSC chairman Parmar Ravi Manubhai claimed that the take a look at was held in a free and honest method in additional than 900 centres, the place shut to 5 lakh candidates appeared.
“However, in one centre in Patna, some of the candidates snatched question papers from the invigilators and stormed out of the examination hall screaming that the paper had been leaked.
“Snatching query papers from invigilators and displaying these to outsiders is tantamount to looting public property. Police motion will probably be initiated towards those that appear to have acted as part of a conspiracy… we’re inspecting CCTV footage to establish them,” he added.
The RJD leader accused the CM of spending ₹104 crore for his publicity on social media in the name of the ‘Mahila-Samvad’ yatra which is scheduled to start on Sunday.
He also alleged, ” ₹114 crore will probably be spent on snacks and different issues throughout the CM’s yatra from the federal government treasury…that is organised simply to enhance the picture of the state authorities and the CM.”