Today, on the first day of the 18th Lok Sabha session, the opposition planned to surround the government, and before the proceedings of the House began, all the parties of the INDIA Alliance made a symbolic protest regarding the irregularities in the examinations taking place in the country,
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.
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.
BJP leader CR Kesavan hit out at Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his post on Uttar Pradesh regarding paper leaks and said that Tharoor had questioned the integrity and honesty of the people of UP and one does not become civil or dignified by splattering fancy English words.
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.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team, which went to Bihar to investigate the alleged paper leak of UGC's National Eligibility Test, was gheraoed by locals in Bihar's Nawada on Saturday.
Star couple Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal are tying the knot today. Sonakshi's father and veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha was snapped at Bandra in Mumbai.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Dubey said, "I appeal with folded hands that there should be a probe into this. All the arrested people are from Bihar's Nalanda. The paper leak happened in Hazaribagh, it raises a big question."