Urdu-Bangla TET aspirants protest over delay in exam results

Patna: Aspirants of the Urdu-Bangla Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) staged a protest at Kargil Chowk in Patna on Wednesday, demanding the release of their exam results pending for the last several years. The protesters, who intended to march towards the CM’s residence 1, Aney Marg, were stopped by the police near JP roundabout at Gandhi Maidan and later sent to Gardanibagh. According to the demonstrators, police allegedly resorted to baton charge to disperse them and later sent them to Gardanibagh by bus. When they were not allowed to proceed towards CM’s residence, they attempted to march towards the residence of JDU MLC Ghulam Gaus. It was when, they claimed, the police used force to stop them.However, Gandhi Maidan SHO Akhilesh Kumar Mishra denied the allegations of baton charge. He stated that the police only questioned the group about their destination and advised them not to protest outside a politician’s residence. “We later sent them to Gardanibagh from Gandhi Maidan in a bus,” he said.The aspirants expressed frustration over a decade-long delay in the declaration of results. Mufti Hasan Raza Amjadi, state president of the Urdu-Bangla TET Association, said the CM had repeatedly assured them that results would be released. Despite receiving legal opinions and letters from the education department, the results remain withheld.“The exams were held in 2013 and results were declared in 2014. Out of 26,000 candidates on the merit list, 12,000 were later failed by the board citing technical reasons,” Amjadi said.