Exam paper leak weapon to take away youth’s rights: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Asserting that exam paper leak is a weapon to take away the rights of youth, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that such incidents are happening everyday in BJP-ruled states and vowed to raise the issue of protesting BPSC aspirants in Parliament.
Days after visiting the site of the nearly month-old agitation in Patna against alleged irregularities in the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) exam and spending time with aggrieved students, Gandhi shared on his
YouTube channel a video of his interaction with the protesting students.
In his post in Hindi accompanying the video, Gandhi said he discussed serious issues when he recently met the students, who suffered due to the “BPSC exam scam” in Bihar and faced a lathi-charge by the police. The students revealed the labyrinth of this paper leak and exam scam in full detail, he said.
“Whether the candidates get the question papers or not, they definitely go viral on social media. Candidates are trapped in vicious circles like normalisation and scaling so that they cannot even know the guarantee of their employment from their scores,” the former Congress chief said.
The students protesting in a Gandhian way were brutally lathi-charged and after that, cases after cases were forcibly filed against them, Gandhi said.
“There was rigging in 28 examination centres but the Government is not ready to accept it. This video is the voice of thousands of students who are demanding justice and re-examination. After listening to them, I have promised to raise their demands in Parliament - this is not just a problem of Bihar but of the entire country, it is the problem of every aspiring youth,” Gandhi said.
“I will not let the thumbs of these Eklavyas be cut off,” he added. In the video, students explain to Gandhi how the leaked question papers did the rounds on social
media and they were beaten up by the police for protesting peacefully.
Gandhi assures them of raising their issue in Parliament after hearing their grievances and demands.
Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the Modi government over its economic policies and asserted that real development is when everyone progresses, there is a fair environment for business, a fair tax system and the income of workers increases.
In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi said, “The truth of Modi Ji’s developed India: Your hard work, whose profit? The wheel of the
country’s economy is turning with your sweat and blood, but are you getting your fair share in it? Just think.”
