RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav has charged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with “sustaining silence” over alleged irregularities in a PSC examination, claiming that current query paper “leaks” in such aggressive checks had been “state-sponsored”.
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.
Kumar’s “reluctance to speak with college students who had been baton-charged by the police and slapped by an official of the Patna district” confirmed that the JD(U) supremo is a “drained man and unable to manipulate Bihar”, Tejashwi claimed.
“This authorities has failed in conducting any examination within the state with out paper leaks …whether or not it’s for sophistication tenth, twelfth, police constable recruitment exams or BPSC checks, questions papers are leaked earlier than the examinations begin. This authorities is least bothered concerning the welfare of scholars and youths,” the RJD chief alleged.
“I need to say that these query paper leaks are state-sponsored. Why did the CM and two deputy CMs keep silence over the difficulty? These (aspirants) who protested towards irregularities within the examination had been baton-charged, slapped by an official of Patna and in addition despatched to jail. It appears that evidently bureaucrats are working the federal government within the state…This isn’t the federal government of the folks,” Yadav claimed.
The youths of Bihar will “present a mirror to NDA leaders” within the 2025 meeting polls, he stated.
“If we come to energy after the 2025 meeting polls within the state, we’ll handle college students and youths. We’ll make preparations for his or her (job aspirants) journey and keep throughout aggressive exams. Persons are fed up with the NDA authorities within 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.
Chaos had prevailed on the centre the place an extra 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.
A big crowd gathered outdoors the centre and information channels ran video footage of the DM slapping one of many unruly bystanders and ordering police personnel to spherical up all those that had been indulging in mischief.
The DM clarified, “It was by no means my intention to slap or harm any aspirant There was a slight delay within the distribution of query booklets in a single or two examination halls on the centre.” “An aspirant was slapped by an official in Patna on Friday when the previous was protesting towards the alleged delay within the distribution of the BPSC examination query paper. It was extremely condemnable,” Yadav claimed.
He additionally requested, “Why query papers had been distributed nearly an hour after the scheduled time? That is sheer injustice with the scholars”.
So far as the PSC preliminary examination, held on Friday, is worried, BPSC chairman Parmar Ravi Manubhai claimed that the check was held in a free and truthful method in additional than 900 centres, the place shut to 5 lakh candidates appeared.
“Nonetheless, in a single centre in Patna, a few of the candidates snatched query papers from the invigilators and stormed out of the examination corridor screaming that the paper had been leaked.
“Snatching query papers from invigilators and exhibiting these to outsiders is tantamount to looting public property. Police motion shall 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 chief accused the CM of spending Rs 104 crore for his publicity on social media within the identify of the ‘Mahila-Samvad’ yatra which is scheduled to start out on Sunday.
He additionally alleged, “Rs 114 crore shall be spent on snacks and different issues in the course of the CM’s yatra from the federal government treasury…that is organised simply to enhance the picture of the state authorities and the CM.”
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