"Bihar govt can't conduct any exam without paper leak": Tejashwi Yadav over BPSC row

Patna (Bihar) [India], December 14 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav slammed the Bihar government over alleged irregularities in conducting the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) claiming that there have been reports of irregularities and alleged that the government can't conduct an examination "without a paper leak."
Earlier on Friday, BPSC candidates held a protest outside BAPU Exam Centre, in Patna complaining about the irregularities during an exam by the commission.
"Both the Deputy CMs (Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar SInha) of the BJP are silent on this issue. There are reports that question papers were distributed 30 minutes-1 hour after the scheduled time...This government cannot conduct any examination without a paper leak," Yadav said in a self-made video.
He further mentioned that he saw a video of a District Magistrate slapping a BPSC candidate during the protests in Patna and that the police lathi-charged the students too.
"Lathicharge on students is being carried out. We even saw a video of a DM slapping a student. Even after such a huge incident, the CM is not saying anything," the former Deputy CM added.
Notably, BPSC candidates have alleged that the question paper had been leaked and there were delays in distributing the papers.
Several candidates, during the protest in Patna, alleged they received the question paper nearly an hour late. Others claimed that answer papers were torn, fuelling concerns about a possible leak.
Speaking to ANI, one of the aspirants said, "Half of the students did not even get the OMR sheet or the question booklet for 15 minutes....Many got the question booklet one hour late, and it was snatched away in 10 minutes... Where the capacity of students is more than 200, why were only 175 question papers brought?"
However, the BPSC Chairman, Parmar Ravi Manubhai denied the allegation, clarifying that the commission did not receive any complaints on irregularities.
The exam was conducted smoothly in all the districts of Bihar, including Patna. At a centre in Patna, the commission received information about some students creating a ruckus. The commission immediately contacted the people waiting at the centre and deputed 2 officers of the commission," the chairman said. (ANI)