NEW DELHI: Congress leader and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi on Monday hit out at the
Bihar government
after police lathi-charged protesting Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) aspirants demanding a re-examination of the 70th BPSC preliminary exams.
“Students were tortured for the second time in three days in Bihar. It is the government’s job to stop corruption, rigging and paper leaks in examinations,” Priyanka Gandhi wrote on X.
Hitting out at BJP’s double engine government, Priyanka suggested that the protesting student’s voices are being stifled through police action. “Instead of stopping corruption, students are being prevented from raising their voice. Water cannon and lathi charge on youth in this harsh cold is inhuman. BJP’s double engine has become a symbol of double atrocities on the youth,” she said.
Priyanka’s reaction follows her brother Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the
BJP-NDA government
earlier last week, where he likened the incident to the example of ‘Eklavya’s thumb,’ saying that the youth’s future is being cut off in the same way by “leaking the papers.”
However, it is not just the Congress party that has criticised the NDA government in Bihar. The police action have drawn condemnation from other opposition parties as well within INDIA bloc. Big guns from parties like the RJD and AAP have joined the chorus against the Bihar government.
Former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav called the police action against the aspirants “painful” and condemned it. “It is very painful how BPSC aspirants were beaten up by the police. Many people are badly
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