Ranchi, Aug. 11 -- The protest in Jharkhand continued to snowball on Tuesday, August 11. While more than 100 Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) workers were detained outside the state Assembly, marching in protest against police action on demonstrators agitating over alleged recruitment exam irregularities, BJP legislators raised the same issue inside the House. The uproar eventually led the Speaker to adjourn the Assembly sine die, a day before the schedule.

Reports say that ABVP workers were detained as they started their march from the old Vidhan Sabha to the New Vidhan Sabha. The RSS-affiliated student organisation had given a call for the march a day ago to protest against the Ranchi police unleashing water cannons, batons, a...