Govt holds first talks with Jharkhand students amid protest, considering demands ‘sympathetically’
While student representatives said they will continue their agitation, a state minister said the government was considering students’ demands “sympathetically”.
The Jharkhand government engaged in initial discussions with protesting students on Friday, addressing their grievances regarding irregularities in the JPSC and JSSC examinations. Despite students pledging to persist in their protest, state minister Sudivya Kumar expressed that the government was evaluating the students' demands "sympathetically".
Kumar, a part of a four-minister team, emphasized that they had heard the students' demands and committed to considering them with a sympathetic approach. Rajesh Kumar, a member of the student delegation, affirmed that the protest would continue until the demands for the cancellation of the JPSC civil service and JSSC-CGL examinations, alongside a CBI inquiry into the irregularities, are met.
It was noted that the students had to remove three names from an initial 11-member panel following objections from the government.
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