Hyderabad: A 23-year-old woman, who was preparing for competitive exams, allegedly ended her life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan of her hostel room in Ashok Nagar here, leading to a protest by government jobs aspirants in the locality, police said on Saturday.
Ashok Nagar is a hub of coaching centres and job aspirants.
While the police said the woman, a native of Warangal, took the extreme step on Friday night due to personal issues, the protesters claimed that she ended her life since she was not getting a job and the state Public Service Commission has postponed the group-2 service exam recently.
A large number of job aspirants gathered at the spot and raised slogans against the state government. They also tried to prevent the police from taking the woman’s body to a hospital.
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BJP MP K Laxman, who had reached the spot, claimed on X that he had demanded that the woman’s suicide letter be made public but he was “arrested”.
“She was diligently preparing for government examinations for many months. But due to repeated cancellations and postponements of exams by the BRS government, she took the extreme step,” he said.
The BJP MP demanded justice for the woman and also others affected by the “sheer negligence” of the state government.
Telangana Congress president A Revanth Reddy expressed anguish over the suicide and alleged that the BRS government has failed to conduct recruitment exams properly.
The K Chandrashekar Rao government had earlier come under flak from the opposition Congress and BJP over the question paper leak of recruitment exams conducted by the Telangana State Public Service Commission.
Said ‘sorry’ in suicide note
The woman, identified as Pravalika and aged around 23 years, allegedly committed suicide in her room in a hostel in Ashok Nagar, which is known as the student hub, police said.
Pravalika was preparing for TSPSC exams, and she was upset that she couldn’t do anything for her family. She ended her life allegedly after TSPSC notification got postponed, they said
A suicide note was recovered by the police in which she stated that she was sorry to her family and that she couldn’t do anything for them, an official said.
