Prashant Kishor:- BPSC candidates in Patna have been protesting for a week at Gardnibagh to get the exam cancelled. So far, the police have also lathi-charged twice. On Sunday, BPSC candidates first marched in Patna and gathered near JP Golambhar.
Prashant Kishor, who was leading this march, stood with the students until 7 o’clock, after which he left. Some students got angry with his departure and started shouting slogans against him. The students said that this was their movement and they would handle it. They said they did not need the help of any political party.
A protester was very angry with Prashant Kishor because he got injured in a lathi charge by the police. Showing his wounds, he said, ‘We ran our movement in Gardnibagh for 13 days to fight for our rights. But politics is being played here, too.
Prashant Kishor went ahead and used lathis on us. Prashant Kishore had said that we would bear the brunt of the lathi charge first, but he left the place before the charge could take place.
Let us tell you that an uproar has started in Patna over the demand to conduct the BPSC exam again. The students reached Gandhi Maidan at 1:30 p.m.pm on Sunday, after which Prashant Kishore arrived. After his arrival, gate number ten of Gandhi Maidan was open so that the people coming and going to the fair would not face a problem.
The students said the paper had been leaked and should be cancelled. Onashant Kishore noted that this movement is for the students and that we will follow your decision.
Kishor joined candidates at Gandhi Maidan in Patna. DM Chandrashekhar Singh told news agency PTI – Patna’s district magistrate said Kishor was booked for “organising a gathering of students” in defiance of official orders.
The district police filed an FIR against 21 known individuals, including Prashant Kishor, his party president Manoj Bharti, city teacher Ramanshu Mishra and 600-700 unidentified persons for organising a gathering of students at Gandhi Maidan even after permission was denied by authorities”,
What did Prashant Kishore say?
Prashant Kishore, founder of the Jan Suraj Party, joined the protesters. He said to media persons, “We are not going to protest. Students are sitting there; we are going to meet them. Gandhi Maidan is a public place; people go there every day. If students don’t have any place, they will go to some public place.
I don’t “know why the government has made it a question of its prestige, somewhere they are harming themselves.” Prashant Kishor said: “Bihar is the mother of democracy, and if students here don’t get the right to speak their minds, it becomes ‘lathi-tantra’… so we are with the students.” Despite Kishor’s appeal, the protesters continued to march towards the Chief Minister’s residence, resulting in a scuffle with the police and later a lathi charge.