Sindri: At least two students fainted and almost half a dozen of them suffered sustainable injuries when Dhanbad police were forced to lathicharge to students who tried to meet the Minister of Health Banna Gupta demanded their class XII (medium) results.
Eight girls who protested were also arrested.
Wings Dhanbad ABVP has announced the city bandh on Saturday against the incident and its parent political party, BJP, has expanded support to Bandh.
During the past four days, students protested after they failed in the results of XII classes announced by Jharkhand Academic Council.
On Thursday, they blocked the road near the SSLNT female college and sat in Dharna in Square Randhir Verma until midnight to suppress demands.
On Friday, when Gupta, who was also a minister-responsible for the Dhanbad district, held a meeting in the Collectorate District, the students marched to where the minister held a meeting and demanded meeting with him.
When they were not permitted to do it, the students began to increase the slogan after that the police were forced to lathicharge to disperse them.
BJP MLAS from Dhanbad (Raj Sinha), Baghmara (Dhullu Mahto) and Nirda (Aparna Sengupta) sat on protest against Lathicharge for almost half an hour and went to Snmmch was six injured girls treated.
Sinha said, “We also spoke with Gupta about brutal police actions ordered by Dhanbad HR Surendra Kumar and demanded action against guilty officials.
The minister has directed ADM (law and order) Kumar Tarachand to ask the incident.
Dhanbad DC Sandeep Kumar has also been convincingly To release eight girls detained.
“Then, Kumar convinced MLA to see their demands and directed Dhanbad Deo to examine the possibility of re-assessing the JAC results.
In Ranchi, BJP State President Deepak Prakash condemned Lathicharge to students.
“Students experience difficult times for two years now because of a pandemic.
Instead of love, the government let the police take action against them.
Embarrassing,” Prakash said.