Police on Friday resorted to lathi charge on successful candidates for Panchayat Secretary Post when they were going to submit their memorandum to Chief Minister, Hemant Soren.
Students alleged even after the completion of the whole process, their merit list is not being released even though its written examination has been taken in three stages.
An applicant Puja Kumari said that when the students told the Police that they will go through the SSP Residence Road then the Police thrashed them and there was not a single women staff present.
“The police are beating the students on direction of Hemant Soren Government but we will continue our protest till the date when the Government will not fulfill our demand,” she added.
The examination of the three phases has been done on January 21, January 28 and 4 February 2018. The result of its written examination was released in February 2019. A total of 4774 students were declared successful. After the examination result, the original documents of all the successful candidates were examined after which typing test was held in April of 2018. Kumari said that more than 10 months have passed after the typing test, despite it the merit list has not been released yet.
Reacting on the lathi charge BJP State Spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo on Friday accused the State Government of trying to suppress the peaceful demonstration of students.
Shahdeo said this is another U-turn of this Government. Soren used to talk to provide justice to the students after getting power police resorted lathi charge on students on his behalf when the successful candidates of the Panchayat Secretary examination were going to submit memorandum to Chief Minister in a peaceful manner, he added.
Shahdeo said that similarly when Hemant Soren was in opposition, he also used to talk about regularization of Para Teachers job and the JMM also made a clear reference about the issue in its manifesto. “As soon as they came to power they changed their old tune. Now the matter of regularization of Para Teacher has been put on the backburner. This is another u- turn of the State Government,” he added.
All Jharkhand Students Union State president, Gautam Singh also criticized the incidents of lathi charge on the Students and said that the students were protesting peacefully when the police beaten them mercilessly.