Despite the severe cold in Bihar, BPSC candidates are protesting on the streets in the capital Patna. The controversy pertains to the 70th Combined Preliminary Examination of Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC), which was held on December 13, 2024. The students say that there were serious irregularities in this examination and they are demanding its cancellation and re-conducting.
Lathi charge has taken place thrice so far
Students from Patna’s JP Golambar and Gandhi Maidan to Gardanibagh protest site. Display Are doing. Since the beginning of the protest, candidates have been lathicharged thrice. In fact, there were allegations of delay in distribution of question papers and paper leaks in this examination held at Bapu Auditorium in Patna.
The examinees claim that the question papers were of substandard quality and some questions resembled the model question papers of private coaching institutes. Due to this, BPSC candidates are agitating at Gardnibagh protest site in Patna from December 18, demanding re-preliminary examination of all 912 centres. With this demand, these students wanted to hold a Parliament on Sunday (30 December 2024) under the statue of Gandhiji at Gandhi Maidan in Patna, but the situation worsened when the candidates tried to move forward by breaking the barricades and the police used force. Used.
Major demands of students-
- BPSC exam should be canceled and conducted again.
- The normalization process should be made transparent. There has also been a demand to make its mathematical model public.
- Strict action should be taken against the culprits of paper leak.
- Action should be taken against the officers responsible for lathicharge on students.
Normalization process became the main reason for controversy: normalization There is a statistical process, which is used to balance the difficulty level of examinations conducted in different shifts. Its purpose is to ensure that injustice is not done to any candidate. However, students allege that BPSC did not implement it properly. This resulted in unfair advantage to students in easy shifts and students in hard shifts suffered losses.
Disadvantages of Normalization: 1-) Failure to assess the difficulty correctly becomes a cause of dispute. 2-) Individual hard work and circumstances are ignored. 3-) Students with difficult shifts may have lower scores, which affects their selection.
Police took action against the protesters
Police attacked students trying to march from Gandhi Maidan to CM residence on Sunday (29 December 2024) evening. lathi charge And used water cannon. Many students were injured during this period. Police have registered a case against 21 named and 600-700 unidentified protesters. The administration says that the protesters took out the procession without permission and damaged government property.
Students are also getting support from many organizations and political parties. Organizations like AISA, ABVP are also active in this demonstration, while RJD and Jan Suraj have supported the movement. Meanwhile, hashtags like #BPSCExamScam and #BPSCNormalization are trending on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.
The Chief Secretary met the protesters as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on a visit to Delhi. However, no conclusion came from this conversation. The students have said that if their demands are not met, they will continue the agitation.
Prashant Kishor accused of disappearing during protest
Prashant Kishor, who is running his political party Jan Suraj campaign, has been accused of provoking students. Blame It is installed. In fact, Jan Swaraj Party leader Prashant Kishore also participated in the ongoing agitation regarding BPSC 70th examination, but after he returned from the protest site, the anger of the students increased even more. The students were demanding re-conduct of the BPSC exam. Prashant Kishor initially led the march, but later he left the protest site, angering many students who started raising slogans against him. They also raised slogans of ‘Prashant Kishore go back’. At the same time, the police used lathi charge and water cannon to stop the protesters from reaching the CM residence, due to which many students were injured.
Case registered against Jan Suraj’s Prashant Kishore and many others
An FIR has been lodged at Gandhi Maidan police station in Patna against 21 people, including Jansuraj founder Prashant Kishore and party state president Manoj Bharti. to instigate students on them and Ruckus There is an allegation of getting it done. 21 named and 600 to 700 unidentified people have been made accused in the FIR. It was said that when the crowd went out of control, the leaders of Jan Suraj left the crowd near JP Golambar. They talked about sending a delegation of five people to submit a memorandum to the Chief Secretary, but due to lack of mutual consent, the names of the people were not even given. To stop the students who were adamant on protest, first water cannon had to be used on them and by using mild force they were removed and the situation was normalised.
Tejashwi Yadav and Prashant Kishore came face to face
The movement of BPSC candidates has now taken political color also. The rhetoric between Jan Suraj’s Prashant Kishore and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has intensified. Taking aim at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav said that he is tired and is running the state with the help of retired officers. He condemned the lathi charge and said that injustice was being done to the students and the examination should be re-conducted.
At the same time, Prashant Kishore also decided to sit on strike from January 2. Announcement Is of. Prashant Kishor hit back at Tejashwi Yadav and said that RJD is trying to crush the movement. He said that they will sit on strike from January 2 and will go to the Human Rights Commission against the Patna Police.
This is the whole matter of ruckus regarding BPSP exam
Let us tell you that the advertisement for the 70th combined preliminary examination of BPSC was released in September 2024 and 4,83,000 candidates applied in it, out of which 3,25,000 have appeared for the examination. The exam was conducted for 2,031 posts, including 200 SDM, 136 DSP and other gazetted officer posts, making it the biggest recruitment process in the last few years. The preliminary exam was held on December 13, 2024, between 12 noon and 2 pm, in which candidates had to answer 150 questions on General Knowledge.
The controversy took place during the examination held in Bapu Auditorium itself. The candidates alleged that the seal of the paper was already open, there was a delay of half an hour in distributing the paper and the paper was leaked. On the demand of the students, it was announced that the examination would be canceled and the examination would be conducted again on January 4, 2025, but now the students want the examination to be conducted again at all the more than 900 centres.
Students demand that re-conducting the examination at just one center will affect its fairness, hence the entire examination should be conducted again. However, BPSC has refused to do so, due to which students have continued to protest in Gardni Bagh area of ​​Patna.
