Patna, Dec 30 (Reporter) The Chief Secretary Amrit Lal Meena on Monday assured the BPSC aspirants of taking lawful action to their demands. An 11 membered delegation of the BPSC aspirants, agitating for the past 13 days in support of their demands including reexamination of the 70th Preliminary Test (PT) and about malpractices at the Bapu examination center as well as some other centres visited Meena on Monday and handed over a memorandum to him. After a serious discussion on all of the issues, Meena assured that lawful action would be taken. He also suggested the examinees to maintain peace. Through the memorandum, the aspirants demanded to cancel the entire 70th PT, conducting a high-level inquiry into the irregularities of the examination, withdrawal of the cases filed against the aspirants, action against the employees who used excessive force upon the examinees and Exgratia to the kith of the deceased Sonu Kumar. After the meeting with the CS, the aspirants said the discussion took place in a constructive and positive atmosphere. The Chief Secretary carefully listened to their grievances and assured them to consider their demands at the earliest. The candidates stated that their next step would depend on the government's decision and maintained that their agitation would continue till the government concedes their demands. Meanwhile, BPSC Chairman Parmar Ravi Manubhai called on Bihar governor RV Arlekar and apprised him of the situation. Parmar is learnt to have informed the Governor that Commission was not ready to conduct a reexamination. Earlier he had already ruled out cancellation of the 70th PT held on December 13 which got mired in allegations of question paper leak, malpractices, and other irregularities. Meanwhile, the founder of Jan Suraaj Prashant Kishore who came out in support of the agitation and led the march of the aspirants from the historical Gandhi Maidan of Patna on Sunday after conducting student parliament gave an ultimatum of 48 hours to the government to solve the issues of the aspirants. If the demands of the aspirants were not considered, he threatened to move to the court. While addressing the media persons PK said that he would sit on dharna from January two if the demands of the agitating aspirants were not considered. Earlier after the lathi-charge and the use of a water canon on the aspirants in the state capital on Sunday night, the BPSC aspirants had charged PK with abandoning them during police action and even asked him to leave the protest site at Patna's Gardanibagh. Later PK refuted the allegations before the media. Meanwhile, an Independent heavyweight MP from Purnia Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav blamed PK for the entire police brutality on the students and for taking them out from the authorized protest ground of Gardanibagh to Gandhi Maidan and on the roads of the state capital Patna. Yadav also called on Bihar Governor on Monday and handed over a memorandum to him in support of the agitating aspirants. The Union Minister Chirag Paswan through his social media post on X appealed to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to immediately intervene in the situation. Commenting on the meeting of the delegation of the aspirants with the Chief Secretary of Bihar, Chirag said that it would soon bring positive results and maintained that the government was sensitive towards the students. Meanwhile, the CPI(ML) extending its support to the agitation of the BPSC aspirants blocked road traffic in various parts of its area of influence. A report from Samastipur quoting police sources said that the students of All India students Association protesting the police lathi-charge blocked the main road near the district magistrate's residence following which the road traffic on Samastipur Patna and Samastipur Darbhanga got disrupted. According to a report from Darbhanga the youth in support of the BPSC agitation and in protest against the police Lathi charge on them squatted on the railway track following which Sampark Kranti Express heading towards Delhi remained stranded at Lahariyasarai railway station for 20 minutes. The CPI(ML) MLA Sandeep Saurabh has written to the Chief Minister, demanding the cancellation of the BPSC PT examination. He highlighted that in the age of social media, the argument that irregularities occurred at only one examination center is absurd. The entire examination should be canceled and conducted again. The entire exam process has been marred by irregularities and corruption, he alleged. CPI(ML) State Secretary Kunal has strongly condemned the repressive and stubborn attitude of the government towards the ongoing movement of BPSC candidates. He has demanded that the government take their demands seriously and immediately cancel the PT examination. The controversy began on December 13, when candidates at the Bapu Examination Centre boycotted the BPSC Preliminary Test due to delayed question papers. Videos of mobile phone use and lack of security inside the examination centre during the test further fuelled the protests. BPSC, following reports, canceled the examination at the Bapu Centre and rescheduled it for December 4, but students demanded cancellation across all centres due to alleged irregularities. On Sunday, Patna Police restored to lathi-charge and water cannons on candidates when they marched toward the Chief Minister’s residence under Prashant Kishor’s leadership. Several students were injured in the clashes...////...