NEET perpetrators will not be spared, says PM Opp raises issue in RS, demands answers from govt

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The PM’s remarks came after Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter to him earlier in the day, requesting for a debate on NEET in Parliament on Wednesday. In the letter, Rahul called the NEET paper leak a “betrayal of a lifetime dream” of many students. He reminded the PM that the Opposition has been requesting for a debate on NEET since June 28. THe LoP wrote that a parliamentary debate would be a “first step towards rebuilding and restoring” the faith of the students.

Issuing a warning on Tuesday, the PM said, “Those who played with the future of students will not be spared. Arrests have been made from across the country in connection with NEET.” The CBI is probing the paper leak case.

The PM said the Central government has already instituted a stringent law (to prevent paper leaks). “Necessary steps are being taken to strengthen the examination system,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday raised the issue of NEET paper leak and demanded answers from the government.

DMK member P Wilson urged the Central government to either abolish the medical entrance test or approve Tamil Nadu’s NEET Exemption Bill to exclude the state from the competitive exam.

Raghav Chadha of the AAP said two kinds of IPLs are being played in the country — one is the Indian Premier League for cricket and the second is Indian Paper Leak — and that the NTA stands for “No Trust Anymore”.

Congress member Digvijaya Singh raised several allegations against the NTA chief and asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi will cancel the NEET examination.

Samajwadi Party’s Ramgopal Yadav said coaching centres were involved in all paper leaks in the recent past — from NEET to NET. “Everyone knows which are the coaching centres that have the approach and potential, and despite that, no action has been taken against them,” he said.

CPI(M)’s V Sivadasan said NEET is not “neat anymore”. “The question paper leak is one of the big issues in the country. Lakhs of students are crying,” he said.

TMC’s Samirul Islam alleged that the NEET has been compromised. “My colleagues from the BJP will try to deflect in the name of the so-called CBI investigation… Not only NEET, but similar scams have happened in other entrance examinations too,” he said.

Shiv Sena (UBT) member Sanjay Raut said the address by the President “was full of lies”. He said PM Modi wished for a “Congress-free nation”, but the people of the country took away the majority from the BJP.