NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha chief of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday waded into Bihar’s escalating BPSC row, questioning the Samrat Choudhary-led authorities over allegations of examination irregularities and paper leaks. He referred to the police crackdown on protesting college students, saying, “questions do not cease with batons.”His assertion got here a day after a conflict broke out between college students and police in Bihar’s capital, with police utilizing water cannons and barricades to cease the protesters from marching.Rahul described it as a “easy” query on behalf of Bihar’s college students and posted on X: “Why the irregularities in recruitment exams? Why no motion on allegations of paper leaks? And the way lengthy will this tampering with the way forward for the youth proceed?”He then focused the long-standing BJP-JD(U)-led authorities in Bihar, saying, “The controversy over BPSC exams will not be of at present. College students have been on the streets for a very long time over the recruitment course of, examination sample, delays, and transparency.”The Lok Sabha chief of opposition additionally referred to the usage of an AK-47 by a safety personnel throughout an earlier pupil protest in Bihar, which coincided with pupil protests in Delhi and throughout the nation over NEET fiasco.
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“However as an alternative of answering, what’s the authorities doing? It is wielding batons and water cannons. It is taking college students into custody. In Siwan, there was even firing with an AK 47 on protesters,” the previous Congress chief stated.He added in his submit: “This isn’t only a query of police motion. This can be a query of the mindset of that BJP authorities, which has no solutions – and that is why it is turning the police right into a weapon to evade accountability.”“The BJP authorities ought to perceive this – questions do not cease with batons. You may’t snatch away somebody’s future by instilling concern,” the Rae Bareli added.
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Bihar college students had marched in direction of Raj Bhavan and chief minister Samrat Choudhary’s residence to stage a “gherao”, however confronted police barricading and a few of them had been detained in Patna.
