Jharkhand: Rahul Gandhi urges CM Hemant Soren to meet protesting students
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has urged Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to meet the students protesting against the alleged irregularities in competitive examinations conducted for state government jobs since July 25.
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In a letter on Friday, Gandhi told Soren that he personally meeting the students will help “reinforce the government’s commitment to resolve their concerns”.
The Mahagathbandhan alliance, led by Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and comprising the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, is in power in Jharkhand.
Gandhi also alleged in the letter that the Indian education system had been “captured by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party and transformed into a tool for the exploitation and oppression of students”.
It is “no longer the robust” knowledge system that it used to be a decade ago, he wrote.
Demonstrators in Jharkhand have been holding a sit-in at Ranchi’s Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium, with six protesters on an indefinite hunger strike.
Gandhi said that the protest in the state has been peaceful and the demands of the students are legitimate.
He also appreciated that the Jharkhand government had initiated a dialogue with the students through a committee constituted by Soren. However, he noted that while the government has agreed on several of the students’ demands, the...