Union Minister Chirag Paswan said on Monday that the government has "nothing to hide" regarding the ongoing row over alleged irregularities in the conduct of NEET-UG exam by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
Amid the row over the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET)-UG examination, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday took a jibe at the central government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that the latter gets exam papers leaked to "please" its people.
Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not mentioning issues like NEET exam irregularities, Manipur violence and West Bengal train accident while addressing media persons outside the new Parliament building before taking oath as MP, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge said P
National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah termed the alleged irregularities in the NEET examination 2024 as a crime committed against students and that those who qualified for the exams by studying and not buying papers have been subjugated to trouble.
Congress MP from Sivaganga, Karti P Chidambaram termed the alleged irregularities in the NEET examination 2024 as a complete mess and demanded that the right to conduct examinations for medical college admissions be reverted back to the states.
The Centre's seven-member high-level committee formed to oversee transparency and look into the functioning of the National Testing Agency (NTA) to meet on Monday, stated the sources at the Education Ministry.
Congress MP Hibi Eden on Sunday called NEET controversy one of the biggest scams in the country and claimed the involvement of several people and money, adding that an independent probe under the Supreme Court judges should be conducted.
The first session is expected to be stormy as the opposition is likely to corner the BJP-led NDA government on the election of the Speaker on June 26, discussions regarding allegations of paper leaks in NEET-UG and UGC-NET, and row over the appointment of the pro-tem Speaker.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday said that it is disappointing that students have been disadvantaged adding that the government has taken good steps on the NEET UG exam issue.
Congress MP Shafi Parambil on Sunday slammed the central government following the postponement of the NEET-PG examination and said that the government has committed a "heinous crime" by playing with the future of a country adding that the LKG exams have more "credibility" than this.