Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor, who was sitting on an indefinite strike, was detained by Patna police at around 4 am on Monday. The police also vacated Gandhi Maidan, where Kishor was sitting on an indefinite hunger strike seeking action against the alleged BPSC exam paper leak.
Furthermore, police also checked all the vehicles leaving from Gandhi Maidan. Patna police is now taking Kishor to Naubatpur from AIIMS. Election strategist-turned political leader, Kishor was sitting on an indefinite hunger strike since January 2 seeking cancellation of BPSC 70th CCE exam over alleged paper leak and other irregularities.
Patna police took Kishor into an ambulance. Jan Suraaj party also claims that police slapped Kishor. Before being detained, the Jan Suraaj chief said that the party would file a petition in the High Court on January 7 over BPSC irregularities.
“It is not a matter of decision for us whether we will continue this (protest) or not. We will continue doing what we are doing now, there will be no change in it…We (Jan Suraaj Party) will file a petition in the High Court on the 7th,” said Prashant Kishor.
Earlier on Sunday, Kishor urged the RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to lead the protest as he is the Leader of Opposition (LoP). “He (Tejashwi Yadav) is a tall leader. He is also the LoP. He should have led the protests. I have been telling them to lead the protest. We will step aside. He said that he was coming to Gandhi Maidan with five lakh people. Students (and their issues) should be talked about. Politics can happen whenever. We don’t have any party banners here. We care about the agenda of the students,” he added.
He also warned the Nitish Kumar government and said, “If the government is stubborn to not listen to people, then we are also stubborn to make them budge. We will do whatever it takes, if life gets in danger, let it be. We are not going to back out”.
He made it clear that the government will have to take cognisance of people’s grievances. “Whatever is happening in the last 20-25 years in Bihar, we cannot let it continue. It cannot happen that people don’t stand here with us,” he said.
