Government assurance fails to stop UPSC aspirants’ protest

The government on Friday requested the protestors to be “patient” and assured them that there would be “no discrimination based on language”.

“Government sympathizes and it should be clear that under no circumstance we will tolerate injustice on the basis of language. The government and the Prime Minister are more concerned than the agitating students and are trying to find a satisfactory solution,” minister of state for personnel, public grievances and pensions Jitendra Singh told reporters outside Parliament.

“We appeal them to be patient and stay calm and not subject themselves to mental agony,” he said.

The civil service candidates have been protesting in the capital against an aptitude test which they feel gives an unfair advantage to English-speaking students.

After the opposition parties disrupted both houses on Friday, demanding justice for the students.

“We sympathise with the students, we are looking at their problem with all seriousness,” Jitender Singh, said in Parliament.

Earlier today the police have stopped and arrested hundreds of protestors who planned to stage protest outside Parliament.

“The immediate provocation of these protests is the admit card,” the minister said in the Rajya Sabha adding, “It was decided by the UPSC, not by the present government. Future action will not be determined by this admit card.”

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