The Police of India has employed water cannons this Tuesday to dissolve hundreds of protesters who have once again taken to the streets to protest the leak of questions from public employment entrance exams and to denounce alleged irregularities in the process.
The gatherings have mainly developed in the state of Bihar, in the northeast of the country, where participants have marched to the residence of the governor, Ata Hasnain, to demand the annulment of these tests following reports of supposed leaks.
The mobilizations originated after the exam held in December 2024, to which more than 300,000 candidates applied for 2,000 positions that were finally awarded in June, after two phases of tests and a personal interview. The Government has rejected all these accusations from the beginning, although it ordered a review of the results in one of the centers where the exams were conducted.
The images disseminated by the news agency ANI show dozens of people advancing between the police barricades just before the agents begin to use the water cannons to disperse the march.
The Minister of Education, Mithilesh Tiwari, has indicated that the authorities are already addressing the students' claims, although he has not provided further details. Previous protests led to the resignation of his predecessor, Dharmendra Pradhan, who was supposedly considered responsible for that episode of the leak of university entrance exam questions.
Those mobilizations were led by Abhijeet Dipke, leader of the newly founded Cucaracha Janta Party (a name that winks at the formation of Prime Minister Narentra Modi), who expressed his satisfaction after the minister's resignation was announced.
In this context, the formation has now announced the organization of a new peaceful protest in New Delhi for next month, with the aim of denouncing what it interprets as the federal Government's failure to fulfill the promises made after the first demonstrations.