RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec.15: The BJP today demanded a CBI probe into the matter of irregularities in the civil service preliminary test (PT) organised by Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) after the dismissal of its chairman, Amitabh Chouhdary.
The development took place in the evening after a seven-member delegation of the BJP leaders led by Bhavnathpur MLA Bhanu Pratap Shahi and Hatia MLA Naveen Jaiswal met Governor Ramesh Bias with the demand.
The delegation justified the demand saying it was a must as those scoring less than cut-off marks qualified while those scoring more than cut-off marks were declared disqualified. Apart from this, the delegation pointed out two centres that come under the assembly constituency of chief minister Hemant Soren and finance minister Rameshwar Oraon and where there was no system of electronic surveillance candidates qualified serially.
The other reasons, the delegation pointed out, for a CBI probe included missing of 49 OMR sheets and declaring 49 students fail 40 days after declaring them provisionally pass following pressure of BJP state president Deepak Prakash, use of lathi on the BJP legislators and workers raising voice against the irregularities in PT examination, non-uploading of OMR sheet candidates on the JPSC website in violation of section 30 of the JPSC rule and leakage of question papers before the examination.
