Student leader Ravindra Paswan alleges that the police are lathi-charging students who are taking part in the protest in Jharkhand.
Students have been protesting since July 25, alleging irregularities in the examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC), and claiming that fraud was committed in OMR sheets, leading to discrepancies in the exam results.
As a continuation of the protest, police set up barricades and stopped the students on the way to the march toward the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. As the students tried to break through the police barricades, a scuffle broke out between the police and the students.
Therefore, the police used force against the students by firing tear gas shells, spraying water, and lathi-charging them.
Regarding this, Ravindra Paswan said:
As part of the assembly siege, we are also carrying out a protest. We came here peacefully and sat down. There are thousands of students here.
When millions of students take to the streets, isn’t it the government’s responsibility to listen to them and carefully hear their demands? But what is the government doing?
As soon as darkness falls, this area is turned into a police camp, and baton charges are carried out against us. The police are baton-charging our friends to separate us. The people of Jharkhand will not tolerate all this. We declare today that this student movement has now turned into a people’s movement,” he said.
