Maha students demand accountability for paper leak

Apart from Mumbai, demonstrations were held in Thane, Bhiwandi, Pune, Nashik, Kolhapur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nagpur, Jalgaon, Beed, Sindhudurg, Washim, Akola, Yavatmal, Chandrapur, Parbhani, Amravati, Bhandara and Nandurbar, with opposition leaders joining protests at several locations.

In Pune, hundreds of students gathered outside the district collector’s office near the statue of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, while students of the Film and Television Institute of India protested inside the campus. In Thane, demonstrators staged a street play highlighting the emotional and academic toll of paper leaks on students. Nagpur witnessed a peace march, while students in Parbhani observed a one-day fast.

The Nationalist Congress Party (SP), along with Shiv Sena (UBT), the Communist Party and students from Thane and Bhiwandi, marched to the Thane Collector’s Office.