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Jharkhand Students Protest Alleged Exam Irregularities at Vidhan Sabha

Jharkhand Students Protest Alleged Exam Irregularities at Vidhan Sabha
Students will end agitation if demands met: JLKM's Mahato · m.rediff.com

Some students in a place called Jharkhand, in India, were not happy because they thought their exams and job recruitment were not fair.

They believed that the people who run the exams did not follow the rules.

So the students marched to the Vidhan Sabha, which is like the state's big meeting house, to tell the leaders what happened.

The police put up barricades to stop them and even used a water cannon, a machine that shoots very strong water, to try to keep the crowd away.

Some leaders from a political party called JLKM came to support the students.

One of those leaders, Devendra Nath Mahto, is on a hunger strike, which means he is not eating food to show how serious the problem is.

He said the barbed wires hurt even more than the hunger strike, and that the government will have to listen.

Another leader, Jairam Kumar Mahato, said the protest will stop once the students' demands are met.

The students want the government to fix the exams and recruitment so everything is fair and honest.

Key facts

Event
Vidhan Sabha Gherao march by students
Organizing body
JPSC-JSSC Reform Manch
Location
Ranchi, Jharkhand (near Vidhan Sabha)
Cause
Alleged irregularities in examinations and recruitment process
Police action
Water cannon used against protesters attempting to break barricading
Supporting leaders
JLKM MLA Jairam Kumar Mahato and JLKM leader Devendra Nath Mahto
Protester actions
Hunger strike; crossing three layers of barricading

Quotes

Jairam Kumar Mahato

JLKM MLA and spokesperson for the student protest

“Fundamentally, they are students. As for the opposition parties, indirect support will always be there; that happens with every government. But fundamentally, they are students; it's their agitation, and once their demands are met, they won't agitate anymore”
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“I am going there (to the 'Vidhan Sabha Gherao' march of students), I will come back and tell you what the matter is.”
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