Patna, RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday wrote to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, searching for the cancellation of aggressive exams carried out just lately, beneath controversial circumstances, by the state’s Public Service Fee.
Tejashwi meets protesters, writes to Nitish for BPSC examination cancellation
The previous deputy chief minister, who had on late Saturday evening visited the location within the state capital the place candidates have been finishing up a round the clock protest, shared on X a screenshot of the two-page letter addressed to his ex-boss.
Yadav, who’s now the Chief of the Opposition, warned “many of the protesters I met last night have fallen ill. If anything untoward happens, the blame shall be on the government and the BPSC Chairman”.
Yadav had visited Gardani Bagh locality the place he was instructed by the protesters that they have been against the choice of the Bihar Public Service Fee to order re-exam solely at Bapu Pariksha Parisar, one of many over 900 centres the place, on December 13, the mixed aggressive exams have been held.
The younger chief had instructed the protesters, “Be steadfast in your resolve. Rest assured that for every step you take, Tejashwi shall move forward with four paces.”
In his letter to the JD supremo, the RJD chief stated he agreed with the protesting candidates’ competition that if an examination for some aspirants was held “on a different date, with a different set of question papers” there will probably be “no level-playing field”.
Notably, lots of of aspirants on the Bapu Pariksha Parisar had boycotted the checks, alleging that query papers had been leaked.
The allegation met with a robust denial from the Bihar Public Service Fee , which claimed the disruptions have been brought on by “anti-social elements” who had turned up as a part of a “conspiracy” to get the exams cancelled.
The fee, nonetheless, has ordered re-examination for about 5,000 candidates who have been assigned to the examination centre.
Yadav additionally drew the eye of the chief minister to the protesters’ objection to “private agencies” being employed for the manpower required for holding such exams.
Invigilators and fourth-grade workers deployed at examination centres have been appointed by these businesses.
By the way, one such personnel, appointed by a personal company, was Ram Iqbal Singh, who suffered a coronary heart assault on the Bapu Pariksha Parisar and died on his solution to a hospital, prompting the native administration in charge protesting candidates for the dying and recommending that they be charged with homicide.
Yadav additionally demanded an investigation into the declare of protesters that “model test papers” of many non-public teaching institutes “tallied more than 25 per cent” with the precise query papers and remarked “this could be more than a mere coincidence”.
Making it clear that he would accept nothing lower than a re-examination for all of the almost 5 lakh candidates who had appeared for the December 13 checks, the RJD chief additionally stated, “About 90,000 students could not take the tests as online forms could not be submitted in time because of a problem with the server. They should also get a chance”.