A 23-year-old woman, who was preparing for competitive exams, allegedly died by suicide in her hostel room in Ashok Nagar in Hyderabad, leading to a protest by government jobs aspirants in the locality, police said on Saturday. A large number of job aspirants who gathered at the spot claimed that she ended her life since she was not getting a job and the state Public Service Commission has postponed the group-2 service exam recently. The police however, said she took the step due to personal issues.
Ashok Nagar is a hub of coaching centres and job aspirants. BJP MP K Laxman, who had reached the spot, claimed on X that he had demanded that the woman's suicide letter be made public but he was "arrested". "She was diligently preparing for government examinations for many months. But due to repeated cancellations and postponements of exams by the BRS government, she took the extreme step," he said.
The BJP MP demanded justice for the woman and also others affected by the "sheer negligence" of the state government. Telangana Congress president A Revanth Reddy expressed anguish over the suicide and alleged that the BRS government has failed to conduct recruitment exams properly.
The K Chandrashekar Rao government had earlier come under flak from the opposition Congress and BJP over the question paper leak of recruitment exams conducted by the Telangana State Public Service Commission. While the Congress called for statewide agitations, Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan directed the Chief Secretary, the Director General of Police and the Secretary, TSPSC to send a detailed report on the suicide within 48 hours.
The death also became a poll issue with Congress leaders stating that if elected, the Congress government in Telangana would “release a job calendar, reorganise the TSPSC on the lines of UPSC in one month, and fill 2 lakh vacant government posts within a year”.
"This is not suicide, this is murder – of the dreams of the youth, their hopes and aspirations. The youth of Telangana today is completely devastated by unemployment. In the last 10 years, BJP Relative Committee - BRS and BJP together have ruined the state with their incompetence," Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said.
