NSUI Demands Disbanding Of NTA And NEET Re-Exam; Protest On June 24 (image-X/@nsui)
Amid the NEET-UG row, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) today demanded disbanding of the National Testing Agency, the body responsible for conducting the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical courses across the country. The NSUI also announced to ‘gherao’ the parliament on June 24, the first day of the eighteenth Lok Sabha.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here today, the NSUI president Varun Choudhary demanded that the NEET should be re-conducted afresh as every day new reports were emerging and confirming that papers had been leaked. He reiterated the demand for a high level probe under some sitting or retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.
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The NSUI president alleged that the way Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was trying to defend the NTA raised doubts that he might also be involved with the entire issue. He alleged that Pradhan was defending the NTA and also trying to bide the time. He disclosed that when the NSUI activists staged a demonstration in Delhi and wanted to meet him, some of them were slapped with an FIR.
Quoting instances of police action in the BJP-ruled Gujarat and the NDA-ruled Bihar, he pointed out that the action was not taken by any Congress ruled states. He asked, if there was no paper leak then why had the officials been arrested in Gujarat and Bihar.
He also referred to recent revelations made by some students who admitted that they had been provided the question papers hours in advance.
Chaudhary said that even blank cheques and cash had been seized, which left hardly any doubt that the question papers were leaked, thus making it necessary that the NEET examinations must be conducted again.
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Wondering why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was observing silence and why he was not speaking about the matter the way he spoke ahead of exams, by holding, ‘pariksha pe charcha,’ he added that the confidence of students has been shaken by the NEET paper leak scam and necessary measures must be taken to restore their confidence.
