Class 12 students protest against being failed, demand re-checking
patna — Hundreds of Class 12 students in Bihar who have failed in their exams continued their protest for the fourth consecutive day in Patna on Saturday demanding rechecking of their answer sheets and action against officials, police said.
More than eight lakh of the over 12 lakh students who appeared for the Class 12 exams conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), failed this year. The results were declared on Tuesday.
The angry students, led by the CPI-ML student wing AISA, staged a protest outside the Bihar Inter Council office and reportedly damaged the windows of a bus besides blocking roads and pelting stones at the police, officials said.
“We want re-examination for all and action against the BSEB chairman,” a protesting student said.
The police resorted to batoncharge to disperse the protesters but failed as the slogan shouting students returned outside the Council office and continued their protest despite the scorching heat.
“Hundreds of students protested for the fourth day and raised slogans against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Bihar Education Minister Ashok Choudhary and BSEB chairman Anand Kishore over the poor results,” a police official said.
Similar protests also took place in Vaishali district on Saturday.
The students were led by the CPI student wing AISF and the RSS’ student wing ABVP during their protests on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
In a repeat of last year’s events, the BSEB on Friday cancelled the result of Class 12 topper in the Arts stream Ganesh Kumar and arrested him for committing forgery among other charges. —