Train services hit as Inter students continue protests against results

Patna | Friday | 9th June, 2017

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They were, however, stopped by police at J P roundabout amid skirmishes.An AISF delegation, led by its state secretary Sushil Kumar, met Rakesh Kumar, joint secretary to the CM, at the CM Secretariat here to discuss the issue. The results were declared last week. Students raised slogans against education department and the BSEB.Similar protests were also organised in Begusarai, Bhojpur, Jehanabad, Saran, Gaya, Katihar, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Madhepura, Arwal, Samastipur, Rohtas and Buxar districts.At Ara railway station, hundreds of AISA and Inkalabi Naujawan Sabha members stopped Sanghmitra Express for more than half-an-hour. Ara railway station manager S K Jain said the train was stopped from 8.40am to 9.15am by the agitating students.Earlier, the AISA members took out a protest march that passed through the main thoroughfares of Ara town and blocked the road near the eastern railway crossing for over an hour. Addressing the assembled crowd, state president of Inkalabi Naujawan Sabha Manoj Manzil demanded re-evaluation of answer sheets and improvement in education system in the state.More than eight lakh of 12 lakh students, who had appeared for the Class XII exams conducted by the BSEB, failed this year..