Opposition to Raise NEET Issue in Parliament
NEW DELHI: As the nation is witnessing widespread protests over alleged irregularities in the conduct of the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) by the National Testing Agency, the opposition is set to raise the issue in Parliament today (Friday).
A meeting of the leaders of the opposition coalition, the INDIA bloc was held at Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s house earlier in the day. The leaders discussed many issues and decided to bring them up in Parliament on Friday.
“We will give notices in Parliament on the NEET issue on Friday,” DMK MP Tiruchi Siva said after the INDIA bloc meeting on Thursday.
The leaders also mentioned that if the NEET issue is not taken up for discussion on Friday, they would stage a protest inside the House.
“All the burning issues of the country, we will raise it in the Parliament,” Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said.
President of Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, Hanuman Beniwal stated that the Opposition is united and will raise the issues of NEET among others in the Parliament on Friday.
Amidst the row over the NEET-UG and UGC-NET exams, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a criminal case over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination conducted by the NTA.
The Ministry of Education has formed a high-level committee of experts to make recommendations on reforms in the examination process.
