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Gandhi said he discussed serious issues during his recent meeting with students who were victims of the “BPSC exam scam” in Bihar and faced lathi charge by the police.
Rahul Gandhi assured to raise the issues of the candidates in Parliament after hearing their complaints and demands (PTI Image)
Saying that exam paper leaks are a weapon to snatch away the rights of youth, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that such incidents are happening every day in BJP-ruled states and raised the issue of protesting BPSC candidates. Vowed to raise. Parliament.
Days after visiting the site of the nearly month-old agitation in Patna against alleged irregularities in the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) exams and spending time with the aggrieved students, Gandhi posted a video of his interaction with the protesting students on his YouTube channel. Shared the video.
In his post in Hindi along with the video, Gandhi said he discussed serious issues during his recent meeting with students who suffered due to the “BPSC exam scam” in Bihar and faced lathi charge by the police. .
He said, the students completely exposed the maze of this paper leak and examination scam.
“Whether candidates get the question papers or not, they definitely go viral on social media. “Candidates have been trapped in vicious cycles of normalization and scaling so that they cannot even know the guarantee of their employment from their marks,” the former Congress chief said.
The students protesting in a Gandhian manner were brutally lathi charged and then cases after cases were forcibly registered against them.
He said, “Rigging took place at 28 examination centers but the government is not ready to accept it.” This video is the voice of thousands of students who are demanding justice and re-examination. After listening to them, I have promised to raise their demands in Parliament – this is not just the problem of Bihar, but the problem of the entire country, this is the problem of every aspiring youth,” Gandhi said.
He said, “I will not let the thumbs of these Ekalavyas be cut off.”
In the video, students are seen explaining to Gandhi how the leaked question papers spread on social media and how they were beaten by the police for peacefully protesting.
After listening to their complaints and demands, Gandhi assured to raise their issue in Parliament.
Gandhi had on Saturday expressed his support for the protests against alleged irregularities in the BPSC examinations by visiting the site of the nearly month-old agitation here and spending several minutes with the aggrieved students.
After Gandhi finished his pre-scheduled program in Patna on Saturday, a delegation of students met him at a hotel.
The delegation then urged him to visit Gardani Bagh, where many candidates are protesting round the clock demanding the cancellation of the Combined Competitive Examination held last month.
Notably, over four lakh candidates had appeared for the exam at over 900 centers across the state on December 13 after hundreds of people boycotted the exam alleging question paper leak.
The BPSC denied the allegations, but ordered re-examination for over 12,000 candidates who were assigned the Bapu examination complex in the city, leading to resentment among other candidates who argued that they were denied a “level playing field”. Being deprived.
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