Thousands of protestors blocked the NH-415 by burning tyres.

 

Itanagar : The bandh called by Pan Arunachal Joint Steering Committee( PAJSC- APPSC) hit noamal in  corridor of Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday.   The PAJSC- APPSC called  bandh to press for fulfilment of the 13- point duty of demands related to  contended leak of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission question paper.   

  In the Capital Complex comprising – Itanagar, Naharlagun, Nirjuli and Banderdewa areas, business establishments,  requests, banks, educational institutions, government and private  services remained unrestricted and vehicles kept off the road, a  elderly police officer said.   Thousands of protestors blocked the NH- 415 by burning tyres.    

The government temporarily suspended internet services in the Itanagar capital region from 6 pm of Friday to 5 pm of Sunday in the “ interest of public safety ”.   

The government order said the step was taken at the request of the director general of police to “  help  farther  circumstance of serious law and order problems during the bandh which has taken a serious turn after the destruction of police  fences, lathicharge and blasting of tear gas shells ”.   

 Scores of protestors and police  labor force were injured in  posterior clashes on Friday, which  impelled the police to resort to lathicharge and to  heave tear gas shells,  officers said.

   The situation  urged Chief Minister Pema Khandu to call off the pledge- taking of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission( APPSC)  president and members on Friday.  

  He also invited the members of the PAJSC- APPSC to the civil secretariat on Saturday for a discussion.   still, the protestors refused the assignation saying that the bandh would continue till all the demands are fulfilled.  

 The state government on Friday  laid over the state board examinations for classes V, VII and XI,  listed on Saturday.   An  sanctioned order stated that the board examinations in all  seminaries of the capital region have been  laid over and would be held  latterly.  

 The Committee is demanding that all examinations conducted by APPSC of which question papers were allegedly blurted  be declared null and void, immediate arrest of the former Commission  president, clerk, members and other officers, a court- covered and Enforcement Directorate  inquiry into the  failure and immediate  redundancy

             of state government officers involved in it. 

Dijit Ronghang