Nationwide, NEET student demonstrations against purported anomalies in the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) and other competitive examinations have become more intense. In an attempt to pressure the administration, the opposition has said that they will bring up the matter in parliament tomorrow. “In the meeting of leaders of INDIA parties at Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence, the leaders decided to give notice in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha demanding a discussion on the NEET examination issue tomorrow,” ANI, a news agency, said.
“Indian political party leaders are scheduled to stage a protest at Parliament’s Gandhi Statue on Monday, targeting the Opposition and accusing them of political retaliation and abuse of the CBI and ED.” the arrest of Hemant Soren, the chief minister of Delhi, and three ministers in West Bengal,” it continued. Regarding the NEET issue, the government says it has done a lot of work. It fired a special committee to look into the matter and started an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The committee’s report should be out shortly. According to an NDTV article, stricter regulations against cheating and paper leaks are also expected to be proposed this session, and those found guilty would face severe consequences in creating a strong educational system. Dharmendra Pradhan, the minister of education, will comment if the issue comes up tomorrow. When Pradhan took his oath in Parliament, the opposition heckled him for the NEET dispute.
Earlier today, President Droupadi Murmu spoke to the joint session of Parliament
Senior Congressman Jairam Ramesh hinted at the opposition’s combative approach by saying, “The prime minister has been defeated on a personal, political, and moral level by the results of the Lok Sabha elections. Every day, the opposition will remind him of this. Since the announcement of the NEET results on June 4, protests and rallies have grown significantly across the country amid claims of paper leaks and grace marking. Earlier today, the National Testing Agency (NTA), which administers NEET, was besieged by the Congress student NSUI, who demanded that it close. This came after the Youth Congress staged a protest close to Parliament.
The BJP-led government is in the beginning of its third term, and the NEET controversy has given the revived Opposition its first chance to take aim at it. Alleging that BJP-ruled states are the “epicentre of paper leaks,” Rahul Gandhi brought up the 15-year-old Vyapam scandal in Madhya Pradesh, which entailed significant irregularities in entrance examinations for government posts. Gandhi cited a recent paper leak in the Uttar Pradesh Police Constable test to support his assertion that similar problems had now expanded to other BJP-ruled states. In response, the government said there was a link between Tejashwi Yadav, a prominent I.N.D.I.A. ally of Rashtriya Janata Dal, and the people detained in the Bihar paper leak case. RJD has refuted these allegations.
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President Murmu urged leaders to put aside partisan politics and advocated for a coordinated response to the NEET scandal. “Everyone must rise above party politics,” she stated, highlighting the necessity of working together to find a solution. President Murmu discussed the 1975–1977 Emergency era that previous Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented in her speech. She called it India’s “biggest” and “darkest” chapter in history and pointed out that it was an outright assault on the Constitution. Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted President Murmu at the Parliament building before her speech. An official bearing the ‘Sengol,’ which the government has recently accepted as a cultural emblem, was with her.
Ajit Pawar will give the budget
Ajit Pawar, the leader of the National Congress Party and deputy chief minister, is scheduled to present the state budget to the state Assembly on Friday during the monsoon session. This comes after the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra lost badly in the most recent Lok Sabha polls.
The Eknath Shinde-led government is planning to do a balancing act and reach out to all castes and communities in the budget ahead of the state Assembly elections scheduled for October. Just a few months before the Assembly elections, the ruling alliance is prepared to challenge the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which is expected to corner the government over several problems during the monsoon session, with a populist “please all election budget.”
Kerala BJP’s uproar
Friday’s rallies, whereby the BJP in Karnataka is calling for the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah due to purported financial irregularities at the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Limited (KMVSTDC), will take place throughout the state. According to Bangaru Hanumanthu, the president of the state BJP ST morcha, there will be protests in all district and taluk headquarters as well as in the larger villages. “Until the Chief Minister steps down from his position, we will not end our protests. We intend to hold a fierce protest throughout the state on June 28 and occupy the deputy commissioners’ offices in each area, he declared.