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. On Monday afternoon, the situation escalated further when Akhilesh Yadav, a student from Kashi, clashed with the police and was forcibly removed. Several others, including Himanshu Yadav, president of the Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha BHU unit, were detained en route from Varanasi and are currently being held at the BHU police station. No injuries to protesters or security personnel were reported. In a video on social media, Prashant Pandey, media in-charge of Pratiyogi Chatra Sangharsh Samiti, stated that a conspiracy was hatched by political workers to disrupt the movement and create chaos. As a result, the students withdrew from the movement and returned to their rooms. He said that the student movement was disrupted due to objectionable slogans raised by some activists of political parties. The Samajwadi Party national president and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has strongly condemned the mistreatment with students and UPSC aspirants protesting against alleged corruption at the Public Service Commission in Prayagraj....