Overview
- Teacher aspirants in Patna, who marched Friday from Patna College toward Dak Bungalow Chowraha, were stopped near Gandhi Maidan where many alleged police hit them with batons.
- Rahul Gandhi posted on X on Saturday, shared videos from the scene, and accused the BJP of answering unemployed youth with force while calling joblessness the country’s biggest illness.
- The protest focused on the Bihar Public Service Commission’s TRE 4.0, a teacher recruitment exam that candidates say was due for notification in April and would fill more than 46,000 posts.
- Accounts in local reports described police chasing demonstrators and several students said they were injured as the crowd was dispersed near central Patna landmarks.
- The controversy follows a Thursday ceremony that inducted 32 ministers into Bihar’s cabinet, and these reports did not include a detailed response from the police or the state government.