Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor, who had been on a quick unto loss of life to press the demand for cancellation of a Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC) examination at Gandhi Maidan in Patna was detained early Monday, police stated.
The police took him to Patna AIIMS for a medical examination, information company PTI reported, citing supporters of Kishor.
Visuals from the protest website present a big workforce of cops eradicating Kishor from the protest website, as different protestors encompass him in an try to cease the police.
The detention comes amid Kishor’s indefinite starvation strike which started on January 2 in assist of the scholars demanding the cancellation of BPSC examination held on December 13 final yr. College students have been protesting on the Gandhi Maidan for greater than two weeks now.
BPSC protest: Patna Police detains Prashant Kishor, vacates Gandhi Maidan
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Kishor, an election strategist earlier than forming a political get together in Bihar, has been pushing for the cancellation of the state public service fee examination amid allegations of irregularities. College students alleged that the paper for seventieth mixed (preliminary) aggressive take a look at performed by the Bihar Public Service Fee (BPSC) was leaked.
The protests intensified after the state authorities introduced a re-examination, which Kishor stated was an acknowledgment of irregularities within the earlier examination. He additionally sought assist from different opposition leaders like Congress’ Rahul Gandhi and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav to construct stress on the federal government to cancel the exams.
“These leaders are a lot larger than us. They will get 5 lakh folks to assemble on the Gandhi Maidan…that is the time to take action. The way forward for the youth is at stake. We’re confronted with a brutal regime which has ordered lathi cost 87 occasions in simply three years,” the Jan Suraaj chief informed PTI earlier.
Earlier, an FIR was filed in opposition to Kishor and a few of his supporters at Gandhi Maidan, claiming that the protest was unlawful.
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