Overview
- The student-led agitation entered its 15th day on Saturday with protesters refusing to suspend sit-ins and hunger strikes until demands are met.
- State ministers held multiple rounds of talks with different student delegations and opened a dedicated email for reform suggestions but the discussions produced no breakthrough.
- The Criminal Investigation Department has widened its probe, recording 19 arrests, questioning former JPSC chair L. Khiangte multiple times, and summoning three serving JPSC members for questioning.
- Protesters demand cancellation of the 14th JPSC preliminary exam, an independent CBI or retired high-court-judges probe, disclosure of OMR/response sheets and category-wise cut-offs, and cancellation of disputed JSSC tests after 2019.
- Hunger-striker Devendra Nath Mahto’s health has reportedly worsened as the movement plans a march on the Assembly if the government does not meet core demands by the weekend, and pressure is growing for structural testing reforms.