PATNA/ARA: Train and road services were paralysed across the state on Thursday as student organisations affiliated to the Left parties protested poor results of Intermediate examination conducted by Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB).Hundreds of students with flags and banners in their hands forcibly stopped trains in Ara, Patna, Vaishali, Begusarai, Jehanabad and Gaya districts, police said.In state capital, the angry students, led by AISF, AISA, SFI and AIDSO activists, marched towards Intermediate Council office from Bhagat Singh Chowk near Gandhi Maidan with banners, flags and posters. 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. "He assured us that the government will consider the demands of the students, which include re-evaluation of answer sheets, suspension of education minister and BSEB chairman and action against those responsible for another topper 'scam'," the AISF state secretary said.The students have also demanded action against the SHOs of Pirbahore and Gandhi Maidan police stations Qaisar Alam and Nikhil Ranjan, respectively, for allegedly misbehaving with the students during the protests over the last one week.A large number of students, backed by Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), staged a protest outside the office of the Intermediate Council on Thursday and blocked the road for hours. 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. The results were declared last week.

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