Future of 24 lakh students at stake due to actions of Modi government: Mallikarjun Kharge on NEET-UG exam

New Delhi [India], June 13 : Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday launched an attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the alleged irregularities in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) saying that the future of 24 lakh students who appeared in the NEET-UG 2024 exam is at stake due to the actions of the Modi government.
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Several petitions were filed in the apex court seeking direction to recall NEET-UG 2024 results and to conduct the examination afresh, alleging paper leakage and malpractices in the test held on May 5.
"Grace marks were not the only problem in the NEET exam. There has been rigging, papers have been leaked, corruption has taken place. The future of 24 lakh students who appeared in the NEET exam is at stake due to the actions of the Modi government. A nexus of Exam Centre and Coaching Centre has been formed, in which the game of 'pay money, take paper' is being played," Kharge said in a post on X.
Kharge also said that the Modi government cannot escape its responsibility by putting the responsibility for its actions on the shoulders of NTA adding that a fair investigation under the supervision of the Supreme Court in the entire NEET scam be done.
"The Modi government cannot escape its responsibility by putting the responsibility of its actions on the shoulders of NTA. The Congress party demands a fair investigation under the supervision of the Supreme Court in the entire NEET scam. After the investigation, the culprits should be given the harshest punishment and lakhs of students should be compensated to save their year from being wasted," he said in the post.
"In the last 10 years, the Modi government has ruined the future of crores of youth through paper leak and rigging," he added in the post.
Amid the nationwide outrage over the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG 2024 examination, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that score-cards of 1563 candidates who got "grace marks" in the 2024 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) exam will be cancelled and candidates will have a chance to reappear for the exam.
"The Committee has decided to cancel the score-cards of 1563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates who were given grace marks and these students will be given the option to take a re-test," NTA said.
"Exam will be conducted on June 23 and result will be declared before June 30," it added.
"Counselling will go on and we will not stop it. If the exam goes then everything goes in totality so nothing to fear," said the Supreme Court.
NEET-UG examination, conducted by NTA, is the pathway for admissions into MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions across the country.