Inter students’ deaths due to government failures: BJP
The Hindu
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Asserting that the maximum number of students who failed in the examination conducted by the State Board of Intermediate Examination hail from the poor sections and those living in the rural areas, Bharatiya Janata Party State chief Bandi Sanjay said it was a result of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government’s failure in addressing infrastructural needs for online classes in the wake of COVID-19 protocols.
Consequentially, “it is because of the government’s failures that students have committed suicide, yet again. It is shameful on the part of the government, that a few students had even tweeted the leaders’ names before taking the extreme step,” he said, addressing media persons on Saturday.
Remembering the 2019 fiasco around Intermediate results which saw 27 student deaths, Mr. Sanjay wondered if students should continue to be the subjects of government’s negligence and corruption. He said the government has no other go than to claim responsibility for the failures at the examination and the deaths following it. Demanding that the government conduct free re-evaluation of the papers, he said the BJP would also initiate legal action.