The Jharkhand government has canceled a total of 44 recruitment drives conducted through TSR Data Processing Private Limited (TDPL), a private examination agency that was engaged to conduct several recruitment examinations for Jharkhand government recruitment bodies since 2014, including those for the Jharkhand Public Service Commission(JPSC), and ordered investigations into the alleged rigging. These cancellations included recruitments for drug inspectors, assistant professors, deputy collectors, dental doctors, assistant engineers, civil judges, forest range officers, and additional public prosecutors.

On July 29, job aspirants sat on an indefinite sit-in protest at Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium in Ranchi. A large number of aspirants and general student-youth spontaneously poured in at the stadium in support of this agitation. AISA and RYA organized torchlight processions, protest marches, and other events in Ranchi and across the state to support the movement, appealing to the Hemant Soren government to cancel rigged examinations and urging young people statewide to further strengthen the struggle.

On August 7, AISA and RYA organized a march from Birsa Chowk to the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. The march was also supported by AISF, Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, and SFI. Thousands of general students, along with leaders of various student-youth organizations including AISA National President Com. Neha and RYA General Secretary Com. Neeraj Kumar, participated in the march.

As the march was moving toward the Assembly, RSS worker Amarnath Pandey, along with three associates, shouted slogans of "Jai Shri Ram" and attacked Com. Neha and several female student leaders leading the march from the front. Failing to inflict physical harm, they threw ink. Students immediately apprehended those goons and handed them over to the police.

Prior to the Assembly march, AISA National President Com. Neha and other AISA-RYA leaders, visited Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium to meet student leaders and aspirants, including Devendra Nath Mahto, Habiba, Sabita, and Rupesh - who had been on an indefinite dharna and hunger strike since July 29, 2026, protesting paper leaks, manipulation, and irregularities in recruitment exams like JPSC and JSSC. She listened to the students' grievances and expressed solidarity with their struggle.

Comrade Neha addressed the marchers and said the student-youth of Jharkhand are on the path of agitation for their legitimate demands, and the Jharkhand government, particularly Chief Minister Hemant Soren, must resolve the students' demands swiftly. She noted that Jharkhand is the land of the struggles of Birsa Munda, Sido-Kanhu, Phulo-Jhano, and Jaipal Singh Munda. She remarked that BJP-RSS elements want to weaken the student movement by throwing ink, but they should understand that ink is meant for writing, not for throwing. She added that attempts to intimidate female students and protesters represent their gravest miscalculation, noting that a dictator is the most cowardly of all, whereas the resolve of those who believe in struggle knows no bounds. She declared that students and young people fighting for their rights and democracy shake the foundations of their divisive politics of hatred and oppression.

RYA State President Sandeep said the student-youth movement will continue to demand transparency, accountability, and comprehensive reforms in the recruitment system.

The march saw participation from RYA National General Secretary Comrade Neeraj, Sonu Pandey, AISA State President Vibha Pushpa Deep, State Secretary Trilokinath, Vijay, Sneha, leaders of other student organizations, and thousands of students.

The unity, solidarity, and tactical acumen of the protesting students marginalised the BJP-RSS’s conspiratorial attempts and steered the movement towards victory. The BJP-RSS left no stone unturned to pit this movement against the agitation at Jantar Mantar, spreading propaganda that the Jantar Mantar movement was led by misguided individuals and traitors, where “Junaid’s biryani” was served, whereas here “temple prasad” was available, and so on. Warnings and death threats were widely circulated on social media against AISA President Neha, a leader of the Jantar Mantar movement, when she was scheduled to arrive in Ranchi. Upon her arrival, she was attacked and ink was thrown at her. Despite these provocations, the students and youth participating in the movement rejected the BJP-RSS’s hateful designs, maintained their unity and solidarity, and carried the agitation through to a successful conclusion. 

Condemn the Right-Wing Attack on AISA President Comrade Neha 

On August 7, during the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha march, a right-wing attacker threw ink at AISA President Comrade Neha Bora and other women protesters in Ranchi. The attacker, identified as Amarnath Pandey, is an RSS member. Responding to the attack, AISA President Comrade Neha Bora said, “I wear this ink with pride. They use ink to shame people; we will write the future with ink.”

In a statement, CPIML Liberation General Secretary Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya said that, having failed to silence the youth movement through police repression, the Sangh brigade had now resorted to street violence and online abuse. He said the ink attack on the AISA President exposed the growing fear of the Sangh brigade towards the rising Gen Z movement and young women activists in particular. 

The BJP government’s use of lathis, tear gas, police repression, and attacks by right-wing forces would not silence India’s youth. The growing unity of students and young people against corruption, unemployment, and divisive politics, the party said, would continue to expand.

Comrade Neha Bora and other AISA leaders are currently undertaking the nationwide GenZ Rising tour, reaching out to young people and building resistance around their concerns and aspirations.