Jharkhand students protest LIVE: Students to march to State Assembly today
Students in Jharkhand, India, are organizing a peaceful march to the State Assembly to protest alleged irregularities in government recruitment examinations. Local police have tightened security and issued prohibitory orders to manage the large-scale demonstration.
Why it matters
The protest highlights ongoing tensions regarding government employment and transparency in public sector recruitment processes in India.
The Jharkhand Police has imposed prohibitory orders around the assembly premises and made elaborate security arrangements across the city in view of ‘Vidhan Sabha March’ called by students who have been protesting for more than two weeks against alleged irregularities in recruitment exams in the State.
“In view of the possibility of unrest during the students’ proposed march to the State assembly, the police administration has been put on alert,” ADG (Headquarters) Manoj Kaushik said.
He urged the students, who will participate in the march to protest in a “peaceful and disciplined” manner as they have shown their discipline in the ongoing protest here for over two weeks, he said.
Protestors alleged that hundreds of students coming to the state capital from different parts of Jharkhand were being stopped by the police forcefully.- PTI
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