DMK’s student wing to stage protest in Chennai against NEET

Chennai: The ruling DMK’s student wing on Wednesday said it would stage a protest here on June 24 seeking the President’s assent for a Tamil Nadu Bill that envisages exemption from NEET for the state.

Secretary of the Dravidian party’s students wing CVMP Ezhilarasan alleged that NEET itself “is fraudulent” and therefore it has being opposed by the DMK right from when the centrally-administered all-India entrance test for medical admissions was introduced.

On June 24 morning, the anti-NEET agitation will be held near the Valluvar Kottam point here, the DMK leader said.

He pointed out that four persons were arrested over NEET irregularities in 2019, which then increased to five, then 15 in 2020 and 2021. The MLA also recalled that while only eight persons secured 720/720 in the NEET in the last eight years, this year about 67 students have secured full marks, and six of them were from the same centre at Faridabad in Haryana.

Arguing that even students who failed class XII have secured over 700 marks in NEET this year, Ezhilarasan said that the fallacy of the medical exam has been exposed.