News Analysis India

Tag: CAPF recruitment exam questions

  • UPSC’s test questions on poll violence in Bengal ‘given by the BJP’: Mamata

    By Express News Service

    KOLKATA: The competitive exam for jobs in the central police forces has become the latest point of conflict between the BJP-led central government and West Bengal.

    CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is preparing questions for the aspirants on behalf of the BJP. She made this allegation while referring to questions on “poll violence in West Bengal” asked aspirants in exams for jobs in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF).

    “The UPSC is asking BJP’s questions. UPSC used to be an impartial body but the BJP is giving its questions to ask. The questions are politically motivated. The question paper also asked candidates to write on the protests by farmers. BJP is destroying institutions such as the UPSC which conducts national exams for civil services,” Mamata said.

    ALSO READ | Bengal BJP renames ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ as ‘Shahid Samman Yatra’

    The post-poll violence became an issue in Bengal’s political circuit after the recent Assembly elections in which Trinamool Congress came to power for the third straight term. Mamata and the TMC claimed that the reports of post-poll violence has been exaggerated by using fake videos and images and most of the incidents took place when the state police force was under the control of the Election Commission. 

    The BJP accused the ruling party of perpetrating the attack on their supporters.

    The BJP sharpened its attack on the TMC after the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) formed a committee last month on the order of Calcutta High Court and conducted a probe before submitting a report before a five-judge bench. In its observation on the basis of the report, the high court had said the situation in the state was a manifestation of “law of ruler” instead of “rule of law”.    

    Castigating the NHRC committee’s report, Mamata had labelled one NHRC member as a BJP man. “I think he has gone by the BJP version and contributed his political allegiance in the report,” she alleged last month.

  • Politically motivated questions in CAPF recruitment exam: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday came down heavily on the Centre for alleged “politically motivated” questions asked at the CAPF (central armed police force) recruitment examination and said it proved how BJP has politicised the central forces to serve its political interests.

    Banerjee alleged that the questions were prepared at the “BJP party office” and that it has undermined the impartiality of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

    “I was shocked to see that politically motivated questions were asked in an exam conducted by the UPSC.

    It shows how the BJP has politicised the central forces to serve its political interests.

    We have seen how CAPF were used to capture booths and kill people at Sitalkuchi in Coochbehar during the assembly poll in West Bengal,” she said.

    Four persons were killed in firing by the CAPF at a polling station at Sitalkuchi in Coochbehar on April, the fourth phase of polling in the state.

    “This (questions) is too much and completely unacceptable.

    What is the message they (Centre) are trying to send out through this incident ? That if you want to work in the central forces, you have to be a yes man of BJP and believe whatever canards they are spreading,” she said.

    The feisty TMC boss slammed the BJP for trying to destroy the “secular fabric and constitution of the country”.

    “This is politicising of the entire recruitment process. They (UPSC) are supposed to be neutral. It’s an effort to malign all people who are in opposition. They (BJP) have also politicised the NHRC,” she added.

  • Politically motivated questions in CAPF recruitment exam : West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday came down heavily on the Centre for alleged “politically motivated” questions asked at the CAPF (central armed police force) recruitment examination and said it proved how BJP has politicised the central forces to serve its political interests.

    Banerjee alleged that the questions were prepared at the “BJP party office” and that it has undermined the impartiality of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

    “I was shocked to see that politically motivated questions were asked in an exam conducted by the UPSC.

    It shows how the BJP has politicised the central forces to serve its political interests.

    We have seen how CAPF were used to capture booths and kill people at Sitalkuchi in Coochbehar during the assembly poll in West Bengal,” she said.

    Four persons were killed in firing by the CAPF at a polling station at Sitalkuchi in Coochbehar on April, the fourth phase of polling in the state.

    “This (questions) is too much and completely unacceptable.

    What is the message they (Centre) are trying to send out through this incident ? That if you want to work in the central forces, you have to be a yes man of BJP and believe whatever canards they are spreading,” she said.

    The feisty TMC boss slammed the BJP for trying to destroy the “secular fabric and constitution of the country”.

    “This is politicising of the entire recruitment process. They (UPSC) are supposed to be neutral. It’s an effort to malign all people who are in opposition. They (BJP) have also politicised the NHRC,” she added.