'Soren unfit to hold office': Protesting students demand Jharkhand CM resign
Students in Jharkhand are protesting against alleged irregularities in government job recruitment exams and demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Hemant Soren. The protesters, currently on a hunger strike, claim the government has been unresponsive to their grievances.
Why it matters
The protest highlights growing youth frustration with unemployment and administrative corruption in Indian state governance.
NEW DELHI: Students protesting in Jharkhand over the irregularities in the government-job recruitment process have grown livid over the state dispensation's inability to address the issue swiftly and efficiently.One of the several students on hunger strike lashed out at chief minister Hemant Soren for not visiting the protest site and called the JMM supremo "unfit to hold" the hightest office in the state, demanding his resignation.Gearing up for assembly "gherao" on August 10 in the backdrop of the ineffective redressal, a protester said: "We remain steadfast until the government accepts our demands. We now demand the chief minister's resignation, as he is unfit for the office he holds. It has been so long since he returned from Bengaluru, yet he has taken no cognisance of the situation.""My health is deteriorating. I feel dizzy if I try to stand up. I try to speak as little as possible...
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