PRAYAGRAJ, Dec. 16 -- Competitive exam aspirants staged a protest outside the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) headquarters on Monday, demanding transparency in the PCS-2024 (Preliminary) and RO-ARO 2023 (Preliminary) examinations. The protest began around 11 am with students holding banners and chanting "Vande Mataram" as they staged a sit-in at the Commission's main gate. Their key demands include the release of the revised final answer key, implementing the migration rule in UPPSC as is done in UPSC, category-wise cut-off marks, individual scores of all candidates-both successful and unsuccessful-and making carbon copies of OMR sheets available on the official website. To maintain order, nearly 300 personnel from RAF, PAC, and local police were deployed, barricades were set up, and drone surveillance was initiated. Over 200 students were present at the protest site, with numbers continuing to swell. Despite repeated requests from authorities, the protesters refused to vacate the road, causing traffic disruption. A minor scuffle broke out when police tried to clear the area, leading to the detention of two students. However, they were released shortly afterward under pressure from fellow protesters. "Transparency is essential for assessing our performance and preparing for future exams," they said. Meanwhile, in a video on social media, Prashant Pandey, media in-charge of Pratiyogi Chatra Sangharsh Samiti, stated that a conspiracy was hatched by workers of political parties to disrupt the movement and create chaos. Ahead of the proposed protest, Meja police had placed Nitesh Tiwari, district president of the Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha for Yamunapar Prayagraj, under house arrest. In a tweet, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav termed the inhumane beatings and humiliation of unemployed youth by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, including dragging them by their hair, as a clear manifestation of the BJP's arrogance of power, which had become utterly inhuman in its display of strength....