In India, tens of thousands of student and youth protesters marched on the state legislature in Jharkhand Monday as riot police deployed tear gas and water cannons and beat demonstrators with batons. This comes amid weeks of anti-government street protests against the ruling BJP party over the leak of national exam questions, which forced millions of students to retake the exam. Some students ended up dying by suicide after studying for the exam for years. The protests forced the resignation of India’s education minister last month. This is a student leader.

Ravindra Paswan: “I would like to humbly appeal to the state government through your platform that this protest today will be a historic one. By evening, the crowd here will increase gradually. I appeal to the state government that you will have to seriously come up with a decision today itself on the student-related issues.”