DMK launches Signature Campaign to abolish NEET; AIADMK calls it drama

AIADMK general secretary and former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday, October 22, said that DMK's campaign to abolish the NEET entrance exam is drama.

Chief Minister MK Stalin-led state government in Tamil Nadu has launched a campaign to obtain 50 lakh signatures in 50 days seeking to abolish the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).

Eliminating NEET from the state has been a long-standing demand of the DMK government. CM Stalin was the first to endorse the campaign, taken up by the party's youth, students, and medical wings, with his signature and casting a postal ballot.

As per an NDTV report, his son and Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, who launched the initiative at Kalaivanar Arangam here, said the DMK has been striving to abolish the screening test.

After the campaign was launched by the DMK, AIADMK general secretary and former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday, October 22, said the DMK’s recently launched signature campaign against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) was a drama before the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

According to him, the DMK government’s only achievement was making Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin a Minister. He challenged Mr Udhayanidhi, who had criticised the zero percentile for NEET PG, to scrap the test, as reported by The Hindu.

He said the DMK portrayed the AIADMK as anti-minorities. “In 1999, the DMK had an alliance with the BJP and got berths in the Cabinet. Due to some circumstances, AIADMK was in an alliance with the BJP, but we did not give up our principles. When differences of opinion arose with the BJP government, we snapped the alliance in 1998,” he added.

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