Launching a blistering attack on the NDA government, Tejashwi said the youth were merely demanding what the alliance had promised before the elections: one crore jobs.
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The ongoing protest by candidates demanding the BPSC TRE-4 (Teachers Recruitment Examination) received a major boost on Thursday as Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav and Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor, alias PK, extended support to the protesting aspirants and accused the state government of injustice and betrayal towards Bihar’s youth.
Launching a blistering attack on the NDA government, Tejashwi said the youth were merely demanding what the alliance had promised before the elections: one crore jobs.
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He questioned, “Why are youths being subjected to such oppression? How is demanding the TRE-4 examination a crime? How is opposing paper leaks an offence? Why are Bihar’s youths repeatedly facing lathi-charges?”
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The RJD leader added that if the government was so eager to use the police force, it should deploy it against criminals rather than against Bihar’s youth. He asserted that repeated lathi-charges on protesting youths would not be tolerated.
“It appears that this government has no intention of releasing vacancies for TRE-4. Otherwise, during our 17-month tenure, we successfully recruited over two lakh teachers under TRE-1 and TRE-2 without any paper leaks, while the recruitment process for another 1.3 lakh posts was underway,” he said.
Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor also accused the Bihar government of betraying youths, women and labourers. “Six months of the new Bihar government have passed. Faces in power have changed, but migration and unemployment in Bihar remain unchanged,” he said.
He also criticised the government’s promise to provide Rs 2 lakh to women under the Chief Minister Women Employment Scheme, saying it now appeared to be nothing more than an election slogan. He further claimed that Bihar’s debt burden continued to rise.
Taking a dig at the promise, Kishor said, “Those who made such promises themselves left power, made their children leaders, and left Bihar’s youth to work as labourers.”
On the NEET paper leak issue, Kishor remarked, “The news is not that the paper leaked, the news would have been if it had not leaked. If thieves are handed the keys to the locker, how can paper leaks and corruption be stopped?”
He said the Jan Suraaj Party stood firmly with the people of Bihar and would not allow injustice against the public. He added that irrespective of the election results, the party would continue pursuing its mission.
From Wednesday, a new phase of the ‘Bihar Navnirman Abhiyan’ began. As part of the initiative, Prashant Kishor will stay at the Bihar Navnirman Ashram in Bihta, near Patna, and work to strengthen the organisation and public outreach across Bihar. Under the campaign, Jan Suraaj Party workers will conduct door-to-door outreach programmes across the state.
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