Jharkhand: Protesters clash with police, JMM workers after HC stays recruitment cancellation

Students protesting the Jharkhand High Court’s stay on the cancellation of recruitment appointments tried to burn effigies of Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Ranchi on Friday, leading to clashes with police and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha workers, PTI reported.

The protesters, under the banner of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission-Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission accused the state government of “deceiving” and “betraying” job aspirants.

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.

On Thursday, the High Court stayed the state government’s decision to cancel the 11th to 13th Jharkhand Public Service Commission Combined Civil Services examinations.

The court also directed candidates selected through the examinations to resume their duties immediately.

Following this, the Jharkhand Public Service Commission-Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission Reforms Manch had called on students to burn effigies of Soren across all 24 districts of Jharkhand, ANI reported.

Tension rose in Ranchi when students moved forward with the effigies and police seized them, the news agency reported.

Lalpur police station officer-in-charge Rupesh Kumar Singh said the students had changed the designated route for the march and gone towards the Jharkhand Public Service Commission office, bringing traffic to a halt, The New Indian Express reported.

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