TSPSC paper leak: Congress leaders in Hyderabad prevented from joining stir at Osmania University

మళ్ళి ఒక్కసారి…

🔥పోలీసులను పంపి, నన్ను గృహనిర్భందం చేయడం కాదు… కేసీఆర్ – కేటీఆర్ లకు దమ్ముంటే టీఎస్పీఎస్సీ ప్రశ్నాపత్రాల కుంభకోణం పై ఉస్మానియా యూనివర్సిటీ విద్యార్థుల సమక్షంలో చర్చకు రావాలి.

🔥మీరు సచ్ఛీలురైతే, స్కాంలో మీ పాత్రలేకపోతే నా సవాల్ ను స్వీకరించాలి.#TSPSCScam… pic.twitter.com/fVkkNPFuyi

— Revanth Reddy (@revanth_anumula) March 24, 2023

On Thursday, the TPCC chief – who raised allegations against IT minister K T Rama Rao (KTR) in the recruitment exams fiasco – appeared before the special investigation team (SIT) of Hyderabad police to present the evidence he had gathered against the ruling dispensation. The SIT has also summoned BJP state president Bandi Sanjay.

Starting Friday, a joint action committee (JAC) of students and unemployed youths are organising a two-day protest demonstration ‘Vidyarthi Nirudyoga Maha Nirasana Deeksha’ at Osmania University’s Arts College. The agenda is to press for a judicial probe into the question paper leak scam or investigation by CBI, and dismissal of the incumbent TSPSC and its chairman B Janardhan Reddy. They also demand compensation of Rs 1 lakh for candidates who now have to prepare once again due to the cancellation of exams.

The activists of the JAC said such anti-democratic actions from the state would not prevent them from raising their demands and that protest demonstrations would be held across state universities and district headquarters from Saturday. They were planning to take out a rally from the OU Arts college to the Telangana Martyrs’ Memorial at Gun Park when they were detained by the police.

ఐక్య విద్యార్ధి సంఘాల JAC ఉస్మానియా యూనివర్సిటీలో తలపెట్టిన నిరుద్యోగ నిరసన దీక్ష కార్యక్రమానికి అతిథిగా @revanth_anumula గారిని పిలవగా వారి వెంట వెళ్ళేందుకు బయలుదేరిన బాల్కొండ మాజీ ఎమ్మెల్యే మాజీ ప్రభుత్వ విప్ @Eanil_INC గారిని అరెస్ట్ చేసి పోలీస్ స్టేషన్ కు తరలించిన పోలీసులు. pic.twitter.com/bdwWd6TfUX

— Telangana Congress (@INCTelangana) March 24, 2023

Revanth has been critical of the SIT and its scope to investigate the case under political pressure. Congress leaders said the police have detained several of its leaders to foil the planned protest. Congress leader Addanki Dayakar, who was also restricted to his residence, said the state government was trying to protect those responsible for the question paper leak by arresting Opposition leaders who raise their voices in support of job aspirants. AICC secretary Sampath Kumar and former MPs Mallu Ravi and Anjan Kumar Yadav were also detained in their homes.

After appearing before the SIT, Revanth said it was KTR who was trying to protect the culprits in the scam. According to him, KTR’s personal assistant Tirupathi is closely associated with accused Atla Rajashekar Reddy who worked as a network expert in TSPSC. Alleging that the government failed to instil confidence in job aspirants in the matter, Revanth also demanded the dismissal of KTR from the Cabinet and asked the SIT to question the minister as well.

Preventive house Arrest while attending Chalo Osmania University meeting organised by Students wings on TSPSC Peper leak issue. pic.twitter.com/Y2bc0Oqm2W

— Anil Kumar Yadav (@AnilTpyc) March 24, 2023

Meanwhile, KTR said legal notices were being sent to Revanth as well as Sanjay for conspiring to discredit the government by dragging his name into the TSPSC issue with political malice. “Dragging the Telangana government and me into this matter without understanding the autonomous nature of the constitutionally constituted Public Service Commission proves their ignorance,” KTR said, adding that he would not tolerate any attempts to defame him. He said a terrible conspiracy is being hatched by both the BJP and Congress to stall the entire recruitment process.

The Hyderabad police on March 13 arrested nine people, including five government employees, for their alleged role in the leak of question papers set by the TSPSC for ongoing recruitments into various state government departments. The arrested accused include two TSPSC staffers and a police constable.

The police were investigating a complaint from the commission on March 11 suspecting hacking of its security systems. It cancelled the exams scheduled for March 12, 15 and 16, and later, based on police findings, cancelled the exams held on March 5. It also cancelled exams held on January 22 and February 26 along with the Group-1 prelims held on October 16 last year.