New Delhi: As the Union Public Service Commission examination row rocked Parliament with leaders protesting against the changed format keeping in view the interest of their states' aspirants, the youth wing of various political parties has been actively participating in the protest on the ground.
Members of National Students' Union of India of the Congress, Akhil Bharatiya Vishwa Parishad of the BJP, Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha of the Samajwadi Party were seen protesting against the UPSC and appealing to the government to fulfil their demands by scrapping Civil Service Aptitude Test.
Joining hands with hundreds of aspirants and going against their own government at the Centre, ABVP members were leaving no stone unturned. Rana Yashwant, an ABVP member, said, "We won't give up our fight until our demands are met. The government have to accept it and I have full faith that it will."
After authorities refused to give permission to hold protest at Batra Cinema complex in New Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar following the violent incident on Wednesday night, aspirants were now protesting at Jantar Mantar.
As the protest gained momentum with CSAT this month, August 24, NSUI members were also seen protesting outside Home Minister Rajnath Singh's residence.
The protest was led by NSUI's general secretary Mohit Sharma against the UPSC and BJP-led central government. Hundreds of students were severely injured in the protests and many were taken in custody.
SYS members have also joined the protest and said that demands of the aspirants were genuine and there should be a level playing field for all. SYS member Abhishek Yadav said, "We have four demands - CSAT should be revised and importance should be given on aptitude rather than language, Hindi should be given importance, aspirants should be shown their answer sheet so that they know their mistakes and those who appeared for the examination from 2011 to 2014 should be given chance."
He added that it is a long and tough battle and the government won't bow down easily, but the fight will continue.
The structure of the exam was changed in 2011 and since then the aspirants from Humanities and Hindi belt are protesting against it. The change has adversely affected the number of aspirants cracking the exam from Humanities stream and Hindi belt as the numbers have gone down drastically.
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