Protests were held in Chandigarh Friday after a question in the civil services main Examination, conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), asked the students to evaluate the "revolutionary terrorism" of one of the best known martyrs of Indian freedom struggle - Bhagat Singh.
The attempt to equate Bhagat Singh's freedom struggle with terrorist acts did not go down well with students and student organisations here.
Protests were held at the Panjab University campus and elsewhere against the UPSC for allowing the question that showed martyrs like Bhagat Singh in poor light.
Protesting students also burnt an effigy of the UPSC chairman.
The question was part of the general studies part I paper which was held Friday.
"The word terrorism has negative connotations in the minds of the masses and the UPSC was trying to equate Osama bin Laden and other terrorists with Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, and we will not allow it to happen," Indian National Students Organization (INSO) office-bearer Vikas Rathee said.
The INSO threatened to launch a countrywide agitation on this issue with support from other student organisations if the UPSC did not withdraw the question and tender an apology for hurting peoples' sentiments.
Incidentally, the birth centenary of Bhagat Singh was celebrated in Punjab and elsewhere in the country last month.
Indo-Asian News Service
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