From lathicharge to water cannon: Bihar police crack down on protesting BPSC aspirants | India News

NEW DELHI: Patna Police Use mild lathi-charge and water cannon to disperse the BPSC aspirants protesting at Gandhi Maidan and demand re-exam for 70th BPSC preliminary exams.
The protesting students in Patna demanding cancellation of the Integrated Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination (CCE) 2024 conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) on December 13.
SP City Sweety Sahrawat said that the police asked the protesting students to vacate the place as their representative was not there. She also claimed that they only used the water cannon, not the lathi charge but the video of policemen beating people.

“We asked the protesting students to vacate the place, but they did not listen to us… We also said that they can put forward their demands, we are ready to listen to them… They also urged us, to which we “They used water cannons on them…” Se said.
Earlier, Prashant Kishore, who heads Jan Suraj, stood next to BPSC aspirants during their demonstration.
Kishore criticized the Bihar government for turning democracy into “lathi-tantra” while defending the fundamental right of students to demonstrate in public places.

In his media interaction, Kishore said, “We will not protest. Students are sitting there, we will meet them. Gandhi Maidan is a public place, people go there every day. If the students have no place,” they will go to a public place. I don’t know why the government made it a matter of their prestige, somewhere they are harming themselves.
He continued by saying, “Bihar is the mother of democracy and if the students here do not have the right to express their opinion, then it becomes a ‘lathi tantra’… that’s why we are on the side of the students.” “