Kumar Bahukhandi
Patna High Court and BPSC – Photo : Prime Look Digital
Patna High Court: On Friday March 28 , 2025 , the Patna High Court gave an important verdict on the agitation in which opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav, Jan Suraj patron Prashant Kishor, independent MP Pappu Yadav as well as Congress’s number one leader Rahul Gandhi had participated regarding the BPSC 70th preliminary examination.
Patna High Court has rejected the petition filed against BPSC 70th preliminary examination. Now the result released earlier will remain applicable. Earlier, Bihar Public Service Commission had released the result of 70th Combined Preliminary Competitive Examination on Thursday March 27 , 2025 with some conditions. There were conditions in it that the result of the examination will be affected by the result of the order passed in the petition CWIC- 369/2025 filed in the Hon’ble High Court, Patna related to the Integrated 70th Combined (Pre.) Competitive Examination. Also, the candidature of those candidates who have been debarred by the Commission and are to be debarred in future will also be affected. But the decision now from the court has abolished all the conditions and the result will remain the same as before.
That movement and a petition were behind this condition.
Actually, the 70th combined preliminary competitive examination of Bihar Public Service Commission had come under controversy due to uproar. The uproar started spreading after the pictures and videos of an examination center in Patna went viral. The commission conducted the re-examination at that examination center, but the uproar did not subside. BPSC candidates had even alleged paper leak by adding issues like giving question papers late in the examination center, more or less question papers in the examination hall, carrying them in the open in another form, snatching answer sheets during the examination.
With these allegations, the uproar of the candidates started on a small scale, but then the bigwigs of politics started getting involved and the matter escalated. First the opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav got involved. Then independent MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav. After that, Prashant Kishore, the mastermind of Jan Suraj Party, took over. In this sequence, there were two clashes between the protesters and the police. FIRs were also filed against many coaching operators. Now, the opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has also stood with the BPSC protesters when he came to Patna. Among these leaders, Prashant Kishore did two big things. First, he went on a long hunger strike and second, he got the candidates to file a petition in the High Court. This petition is the reason behind the conditions written by BPSC.
Interim relief was not given, but the court told the conditions
Pappu Kumar of Sheikhpura, Sandeep Kumar Singh of East Champaran, Ravish Kumar Raj of Gaya, Himanshu Raj of Rohtas, Subhash Kumar Thakur, Deepak Kumar and Deepshikha of Muzaffarpur, Khushi Kumari of Khagaria, Gautam Kumar and Satyam Raj of Nalanda, Rajan Kumar Tiwari of Aurangabad, Chandan Kumar of Supaul, Vivek Kumar of Patna and Akash Anand of Araria had collectively filed this petition (CWIC- 369/2025). These 14 names are in the front in the High Court, while Prashant Kishore and his political party- Jan Suraj are standing with it from the inside.
The Chief Secretary of Bihar, Principal Secretary of General Administration Department, Bihar Public Service Commission, Secretary of Bihar Public Service Commission and Controller of Examinations have been made complainants in this. Senior advocate YV Giri is arguing in the High Court on behalf of the petitioners. The movement is still going on, but has cooled down a bit with the cold. On Thursday, a few hours before the results were announced, the protesters created a ruckus for a while in the BJP office, but the rest of the time there was peace.
The reason is that the High Court had also clarified while giving the next date of hearing on January 31 that no interim relief will be given on the petitioner’s appeal, but if the commission releases the result then it will be provisional. The same result has come today, but it will completely depend on the decision of the High Court. If the petitioners’ argument is rejected then the result released by BPSC on Thursday will remain in force and if the High Court’s opinion also goes with the protesters’ appeal then this result will be cancelled. Meaning, 21581 candidates who passed are still in a pending result status even after passing, while 307409 candidates who failed have their last hope from Patna High Court to save this chance.
