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Despite mounting pressure amid ongoing protests over allegations of question paper leak, the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) on Friday asserted that the 70th Integrated Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination (CCE) 2024 held on December 13 across the state will not be cancelled.
Making the announcement, BPSC Examination Controller Rajesh Kumar Singh said: “There is no question of cancelling the entire BPSC exam held on December 13. The BPSC decided to cancel the preliminary examination held at Bapu Pariksha Parisar centre only due to disruption created by a group of unruly aspirants as part of the conspiracy to disrupt the exam. The re-examination will be held on January 4 at some other centre in the city.”
“We have information that a group of private coaching institutes are instigating aspirants… and they are mobilising students to raise the demand for the cancellation of the entire exam. Their demand is baseless,” Singh said.
The decision comes as several political figures showcased support for the protesters who have been demonstrating for over a week and had even tried to storm the BPSC premises once, which led to a police crackdown.
Tejashwi Yadav Writes To CM Nitish Kumar For Exam Cancellation
Last week, former deputy chief minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav had expressed his solidarity with the protesting aspirants and even met them at the protest site in Patna’s Gardani Bagh.
He also wrote a letter to CM Nitish Kumar, demanding cancellation of the exam. Bihar Congress chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh and Independent MP from Purnea, Pappu Yadav, who belongs to the INDIA bloc, also made similar gestures.
The Jan Suraaj Party also sent a letter to the chief secretary regarding the exam’s cancellation. Its founder Prashant Kishor visited the protest site on Thursday where he asked the state government to resolve the crisis within three days, failing which he warned to lead the protest himself.
However, the protesters showed no interest in political leaders trying to use their cause for their own agenda.
Educator ‘Khan Sir’ Visits Protest Site, Forced To Leave
YouTube influencer Motiur Rahman Khan, known as Guru Rahman, declared that Prashant Kishor will not be allowed to participate in the protests. However, he himself was chased away by the aspirants on Friday when he visited the protest site, the report said.
Educator Faizal Khan, popularly known as Khan Sir, was given a similar treatment, despite him trying to convince the protesters of his deep sympathy for them.”I am willing to sell one of my kidneys for the sake of your cause,” he said.
Khan Sir, who came to meet the protesting BPSC candidates, said: “We are only demanding a re-examination from the commission. The commission can conduct as difficult an examination as it wants. We are not running away from this. We are saying that take a difficult examination and do not give children’s questions… the questions in our class tests are more difficult than this… Why did the commission hide the evidence and CCTV footage? Many things have come out which are a matter of investigation.”
He further lashed out at the Bihar government and said he would move the apex court over the BPSC row. “We will go to the Supreme Court, we will even tell the President what is happening in Bihar… First, the country’s GDP fell, then the bridge in Bihar collapsed and now BPSC has collapsed,” he said.
#WATCH | Patna, Bihar | Educator and YouTuber Khan Sir, who came to meet the protesting BPSC candidates, says, “We are only demanding a re-examination from the commission. The commission can conduct as difficult an examination as it wants. We are not running away from this. We… pic.twitter.com/8BFccuPir1
— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2024
However, visuals surfaced showing the two being sent away by angry aspirants from the protest site. “We will not allow anybody, including Khan Sir or Guru Rahman, to use our stir for their own gains,” one of the protesters told reporters.
A group of aspirants is demanding that the entire exam of the BPSC held on December 13 in Bihar be cancelled. Seeking a response in this regard from the government, they have been staging a dharna at Gardani Bagh for the last several days.
They are reasoning that cancellation shouldn’t be ordered for just one centre but across the board since to esnure “level playing field”.
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