The students protest which erupted in Bihar and UP over allegations of discrepancies in Railway Recruitment Board Non-Technical Popular Categories (RRB-NTPC) examinations took a violent turn on Wednesday when a bogie of the Bhabua-Patna Intercity Express at the Gaya station was set on fire and various incident of vandalism of public property were reported. Cracking down on the violent protests, the police booked hundreds of unidentified protestors in Bhojpur, Buxar, Nawada, Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur and Patna. The Police also launched an FIR against coaching institute teachers S.K. Jha, Gagan Pratap, Gopal Verma and “Khan Sir”. Of them, the most popular is “Khan Sir”.
Khan Sir is a famous teacher who teaches General Studies (GS) to candidates preparing for recruitment exams such as Banking, RRB, NDA, SSB and CDS among others. His YouTube channel has 1.45 crore subscribers. He created his YouTube channel on 25th April 2019 and his videos have amassed a total of over 135 crore views. His location shown on his channel is Patna, Bihar. His Facebook page has over 2.76,000 followers. He also has a mobile application by the name “Khan Sir Official.”
Prior to his booking by the local police, he had highlighted the alleged irregularities via his video which was uploaded 10 days ago which mopped up over 4.7 crore views. Though Khan Sir has claimed that he did not instigate violence, the police believe his videos incited the students to intensify their protest .
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Making his stance clear, Khan Sir has recently uploaded a new video where he has asked all the students to call-off the protests and not blame the railway minister for the issue. “The government has conceded to all the demands of the students. Hence, I urge them to call off Friday’s Bihar bandh. What if some miscreants join the protest and disturb the law and order of the state? We would never want students to be discredited. If any violence takes place during the bandh, teachers would find it difficult to stand by the students,” he said in the video. Protestors have asked the police to rescind the FIRs against the students as well as Khan Sir and other teachers.
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The students have been protesting against what they claim as irregularities in conducting the exams for Group C and D candidates for non-gazette posts for the Indian Railways. The results on January 14th shortlisted candidates for the second phase of CBT or CBT-2. The candidates opposed this format of the examination. They claim that when the 2019 RRB notification was released, it had no mention of dual-phase CBT, rather the test was supposed to be conducted in a single phase.
