NEET row: Rahul Gandhi promises to take the voice of the youth from the streets to Parliament

Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for maintaining a “silence” on the NEET issue, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asserted that his party is committed to taking the voice of the youth from the streets to the Parliament.

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) is the entrance test to medical and allied courses.

In a post on social media platform X, Mr. Gandhi pointed out that the party’s ‘Nyay Patra’ or manifesto had given a guarantee to secure the future of the youth by enacting a strong law against paper leaks.

“Narendra Modi, as usual, is maintaining silence on the tampering with the future of more than 24 lakh students in the NEET examination,” he said in his post. Mr. Gandhi said the arrests made in Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana clearly show that “there has been organised corruption in the examination in a planned manner” and “the BJP-ruled states have become the epicentre of paper leaks”.

“We are committed to perform our role as a responsible Opposition to raise the voice of the youth from the streets to the Parliament and put pressure on the government to formulate strict policies,” he added.

His remarks came after the Supreme Court said even if there was “0.001% negligence” on the part of anyone in the conduct of the NEET-UG 2024 examination, it should be thoroughly dealt with.

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The Congress has indicated that it would raise this issue in the upcoming special session of Parliament. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate, addressing a press conference on Tuesday, said “the temperature” in Parliament is going to rise tremendously with strong Opposition voices taking on the BJP to ensure that the House is “not run dictatorially as was done earlier”.

“...I can tell you one thing — fasten your seat belts because the temperature of the House is going to rise tremendously. Now the House will not be run dictatorially as was done earlier,” Ms. Shrinate said.

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“It does not matter who becomes the Speaker and who becomes the Deputy Speaker. In Rahul Gandhi’s 14-minute speech, you will not see the Speaker for 11 minutes now. I can tell you this and this is the power of democracy,” she added.