DMK leader KN Nehru alleges BJP manipulated SC to implement NEET

DMK leader and Tamil Nadu minister KN Nehru has alleged that BJP had manipulated the Supreme Court's 2017 decision to implement NEET.

While Chief Minister MK Stalin has recently written a letter to the Governor and urged him to forward the NEET Exemption Bill to the Centre, another minister KN Nehru from his party DMK has reportedly alleged that BJP had manipulated Supreme Court's 2017 decision to introduce the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).

Before NEET was introduced in 2017, Tamil Nadu used to admit medical students based on Class 12 marks.

“When an argument over NEET came up in Supreme Court before a bench of three judges, two judges said there is no need for NEET while a single judge stated that NEET can be conducted. As two judges stated that NEET is not necessary, the government halted NEET. But the BJP government was behind creating a bench of five judges headed by a judge who was in favour of NEET and was responsible for implementing NEET [in Tamil Nadu],” he said, as reported by India Today.

In February 2018, he had given a controversial remark and said, "If students can't have exemption in NEET, cheating should be allowed," as reported by Times Now.

Stalin again pushes NEET Exemption Bill

Chief Minister Stalin has written to the Governor and said that delay in forwarding the NEET Exemption Bill to the Centre causing anxiety among students. "As you may be aware, the admission process for the medical courses for the next academic year is to commence shortly and there is tremendous anxiety and uncertainty among the aspiring students and their parents in the State. given this situation, I am sure that you would appreciate our sense of disappointment and dismay at this juncture over the impasse," he said in the letter.

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