U'khand: Protest by youths against recruitment exam paper leaks turns violent

A protest by youths against recruitment examination paper leaks in Uttarakhand turned violent when the protestors clashed with police personnel and hurled stones at them here on ThursdayThe police resorted to a lathicharge to disperse the protestors Some youths were injured in police actionThe clash between the protesters and the police caused a long traffic jam from Clock Tower to Rajpur RoadAlso readThree million Indians at risk of flooding by glacial lakes StudyUnemployed youths had staged a dharna here on Wednesday demanding a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in different recruitment examinations held by the Uttarakhand Public Service CommissionReacting to the police lathicharge on protesting youths Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said they were subjected to brutality for raising their genuine demandsThe BJP governments corruption in Uttarakhand is ruining the lives of youths They were brutally lathicharged when they were staging a demonstration with their genuine demands against paper leak of recruitment examinations Gandhi said in a statementThe youths were angry as police had allegedly forced them to lift their dharna on WednesdayThe Uttarakhand Congress too reacted sharply to the coercive manner in which the voice of youths was being silenced by the state governmentThe party will hold demonstrations in every district on Friday in protest against the atrocity against the youths PCC vice president Mathura Dutt Joshi saidEarlier on Thursday Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami appealed to the youths not to let themselves be misled by anyone saying efforts are on to ensure that recruitment examinations are held in the state in a transparent wayWe are soon going to bring the strictest anticopying law in the country It will be ensured that use of unfair means in recruitment examinations stops completely and they are held in a transparent manner We will see to it that no injustice is done to the youth Dhami saidOur government is making decisions in favour of the youth We have granted reservation to our sisters and daughters in government jobs Everyones interest will be protected My request to the youth is that they should not allow themselves to be misled by anyone he saidThe government has got irregularities in recruitment examinations thoroughly probed and the guilty have been sent behind bars the chief minister saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever