PATNA, Oct. 11 -- The recruitment process for assistant professors in Bihar's depleted state universities, which got underway in 2020, remains incomplete and mired in controversy over one reason or the other. Several successful students in political science subject, whose university-wise result was published in June 26, after interview from June 17-22, 2025 have now written to the Bihar governor, with copy to the CM and education minister, to facilitate their joining, which remains stuck with the department of education even after 3.5 months. "The commission has closed the entire process for political science, but the college allotment and joining instructions from the department of education are still due for around 279 successful candidates, causing anxiety and hardship to them. The delay is unexplained and Raj Bhawan's intervention can be big relief to all of us," the successful candidates wrote. The ongoing appointment process for assistant professors by BSUSC has been mired in controversy over alleged use of fake experience certificates, research papers and other complaints, leading to hundreds of cases in court. It also generated a lot of political heat in the election-bound state over the selection of a JD(U) minister, after Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor raised the issue and alleged irregularities. Many attribute this as the reason behind the delay in the joining of 279 candidates in the subject to ward off further controversy. "The recruitment process has been on for over five years and our turn came in fifth year, still joining remains a long wait. For other subjects there was no such wait," said a candidate. Three days ago, following direction from Patna HC to Bihar State University Service Commission (BSUSC) to allow four petitioners, denied interview call in environment science subject, to appear in the interview, were given the opportunity, but only two could turn up. "We complied with the court order, but two of the four could not turn up, as they communicated that they were out of station and would not be able to make it on such short notice," said BSUSC chairman Girish Choudhary. The interview for the subject was held on October 7-8, while the court order came on October 7. The court has also directed BSUSC to submit the verification report on the research articles submitted by the petitioners in course of interview to the court for consideration. The direction came on a bunch of petitions by candidates, not called for interview on the pretext that their peer reviewed research papers with ISSN No. were not submitted in full. However, the counsel for the petitioners contended that complete journals had been uploaded, but for the reasons unexplained, they were not considered....