बेबाक · Editorial
ബെംഗളൂരു മുതൽ പട്ന വരെ, പരീക്ഷാ സംസ്ഥാനം യുവാക്കളോട് ഒരു ഉത്തരം കടപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.
തങ്ങൾ വിശ്വസിക്കാത്ത വിദ്യാഭ്യാസത്തിനും പരീക്ഷാ ക്രമീകരണങ്ങൾക്കുമെതിരെ ഇന്ത്യൻ യുവാക്കൾ പ്രതിഷേധിക്കുന്നു; പരാതികൾ അവഗണിക്കാതെ ഭരണകൂടം ക്രമസമാധാനം സംരക്ഷിക്കണം.
തെരുവുകൾ വീണ്ടും നിറയുന്നു.
ബെംഗളൂരു, ജയ്പൂർ, പട്ന എന്നിവിടങ്ങളിൽ, റിപ്പബ്ലിക്കിലേക്ക് പരിചിതമായ ഒരു ശബ്ദം തിരിച്ചെത്തിഃ ദുരിതമനുഭവിക്കുന്ന യുവാക്കളുടെ മന്ത്രം. പ്രചരണം ഇങ്ങനെ
What the young are saying
Strip away the theatre and the complaint is serious. Those on the streets in Bengaluru say the machinery on which a generation stakes its future — the education system, the public examination, the administrative arrangement around it — has become unreliable, and those who point this out are dismissed rather than heard. 'We are called cockroaches when we try to expose the broken system,' the campaign's founder said in Bengaluru, turning an insult into a banner. When aspirants block a railway line over arrangements for reaching an examination, the act is unlawful, but the desperation beneath it should not be treated as manufactured. A young person who has prepared for a test can read an administrative lapse as a stolen chance. That reading deserves a hearing and a remedy, not only a baton.
Two duties in tension
Hold both truths at once. The citizen's right to assemble and protest is foundational; a democracy that hears dissent only when it is polite hears too little. The strongest version of the state's case is real: examinations, railways and city life require order, and blocking tracks endangers passengers and punishes strangers for failures they did not cause. The strongest version of the protesters' case is equally real: education and examination failures carry life-altering consequences. Yet a peaceful cause is not advanced when a crowd, even a wronged one, takes the law into its own hands — as when the Jaipur founder's supporters reportedly assaulted the men accused of attacking him before police intervened. The same principle that protects the protester from the slap protects the accused from the mob.
Evidence of strain
The details matter, because they show institutions meeting citizens at the point of friction rather than before it. In Jaipur, the campaign's founder was slapped, two youths were detained, and his supporters assaulted the accused before police intervened. In Bengaluru, the protest centred on alleged irregularities in the education system, sought reforms and judicial intervention, and formed part of a nationwide campaign demanding the Union Education Minister's resignation. At Patna's Pataliputra station, a crowd blocked tracks over train arrangements for an Excise Department examination and was dispersed with tear gas and a lathi-charge, disrupting rail traffic for hours. The lesson is not that every protester is right in method; it is that unresolved grievance is being allowed to harden into confrontation.
The considered view
Pulse Bharat's verdict is concern, not outrage, and not applause for either baton or blockade. The right to protest failures in education and examination systems is legitimate and must be protected, including from the casual violence of a slap in a public square. Equally, no grievance licenses the blocking of a railway line or the assaulting of accused attackers; a cause that adopts its opponents' methods weakens the moral authority that is its only real weapon. The fault that matters most, however, lies upstream. A republic that asks large numbers of its young to wager their futures on examinations and public systems must make those systems credible, accessible and answerable. The protesters' conduct can be policed; the failure to run credible education and examination systems cannot be lathi-charged away.
The way forward
The exit is institutional, not rhetorical. Examination and recruitment bodies should publish clear calendars, honour them, and coordinate with the Railways and local transport where mass test centres require large candidate movement, so that reaching an exam hall is not itself a trial. Major examinations need fast, transparent grievance channels and independent review mechanisms, so that an aspirant's first recourse is an institution and not a railway track. Policing of peaceful assembly should default to protection, with tear gas and lathi-charge documented and open to administrative review. And those who hold office should answer the substance the young are raising rather than only the manner in which they raise it. Hear the complaint, fix the machinery, and the streets empty on their own — cheaper than tear gas, and worthier of a republic.
പ്രതിഷേധക്കാരുടെ പെരുമാറ്റത്തെ നിയന്ത്രിക്കാം; വിശ്വസനീയമായ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ, പരീക്ഷാ സംവിധാനങ്ങൾ പ്രവർത്തിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിലെ പരാജയം ലാത്തിച്ചാർജ് ചെയ്യാൻ കഴിയില്ല.
നിങ്ങളുടെ ഭരണഘടനാപരമായ അവകാശങ്ങൾ
ഈ കഥയിൽ ഭരണഘടന എന്താണ് ഉറപ്പ് നൽകുന്നത്?Citizens may assemble peaceably and without arms — the constitutional basis of the right to protest.
Fundamental RightEvery citizen has the right to freedom of speech and expression — including a free press and the right to know — subject only to the reasonable restrictions in Article 19(2).
Fundamental RightNo person shall be deprived of life or personal liberty except by a fair, just and reasonable procedure established by law — read by the courts to include dignity, privacy, health, a clean environment and livelihood.
Fundamental RightSuperintendence, direction and control of elections vests in an independent Election Commission of India.
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