Cong leader lashes out at Puducherry CM for not taking stand against NEET

V Narayanasamy said Chief Minister N Rangasamy should write to the Prime Minister registering the government’s objection to NEET. 

Congress leader V Narayanasamy has taken a dig at Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy for not taking a stand against holding the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). 

Narayanasamy said the Chief Minister should write to the Prime Minister, Union Home, and Health Ministers registering the government’s objection to NEET and rejecting the system of holding the entrance exam for selection of medical students. 

He said, “Instead of taking a stand, Rangasamy is keeping quiet and causing trouble to the poor and rural students who are aspiring to become doctors.” He recalled how the previous Congress-DMK coalition ministry in Puducherry headed by him had adopted a resolution on the floor of the Assembly protesting against NEET and sent it to the Central Government. 

Dubbing the action of Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi in returning the anti-NEET Bill to the Assembly Speaker as ‘a clear violation of democratic principles and overstepping the constitutional provisions’, Narayanasamy said Governors appointed by the Centre were proving themselves ‘to be spies and agents of the Centre’. 

He also criticised the Centre for “ignoring the interests of people of Puducherry” as none of the promises that the Centre had held out to the people have been fulfilled. The Puducherry government has not come forward to alleviate the woes of farmers, workers in the unorganised sector and fishermen in distress. 

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