Unsuccessful candidates on hunger strike
Unsuccessful candidates in the 2nd phase result of the 27th BCS examinations and their guardians yesterday started hunger strike unto death demanding validity to the 1st phase result of the exams.
Over 100 candidates who came out successfully in the first-phase result, but were excluded in the 2nd phase along with their parents and guardians took part in the strike at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city at around 3:00pm.
The candidates vowed that they would not leave the place until their demand is met.
To realise their demand, they have been staging demonstrations on the Dhaka University campus and other places in the city since September 27.
“We cordially urge the president and the chief adviser to recognise our logical demands and fulfil those,” said Mahfuzur Rahman, an unsuccessful candidate, adding, “We would stay here until death to met our demand.”
Mahfuzur, who became first in the customs cadre in the 1st phase result of the exams, but excluded in the 2nd phase result, said due to the autocratic decision by PSC Chairman Dr Saadat Hussain, a total of 1137 candidates were deprived in the 2nd phase result.
Of the excluded candidates, 71 percent were the children of freedom fighters and 62 percent were in the merit list in the 1st phase result of the exams, he added.
He alleged that the 2nd phase result of the exams was not published maintaining the proper rules and regulations, saying that it was published on September 23, whereas Dr Saadat accepted its resolution on October 20.
Talking to The Daily Star, freedom fighter Siraj Mia, father of Abu Hanifa, who got a police cadre in the 1st phase result, called on the head of the state to give back the job to his son.
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