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UPSC aspirants meet Rahul Gandhi

| | Jul 29, 2014, at 03:18 am
New Delhi, July 28 (IBNS) Amid recent protests by students over the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT), a delegation of the UPSC aspirants met Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday.

The Congress said Gandhi listened   to their concerns regarding the CSAT in detail.

The party tweeted: "Rahul Gandhi met #UPSC aspirants and listened to their concerns regarding the #CSAT in detail, at his residence today."

Earlier on Thursday evening they resorted to arson targetting public transport and police vans besides stone pelting. They had blocked the Outer Ring Road near Wazirabad too.

The aspirants demanded scrapping of C-SAT (Aptitude Test) for the UPSC  exam besides inclusion of Hindi as language.

The Centre earlier had said it has formed a  three- Member Committee  to look into the controversy  Civil Services Examination conducted by the UPSC as  aspirants protest the changes made in the examination pattern.  

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