NEET will not set foot in TN during DMK regime: CM Stalin

NEET did not enter Tamil Nadu when Kalaignar (M Karunanidhi) and AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa ruled, said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has accused the previous AIADMK regime of thrusting the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) test upon the state. He said that the DMK consistently opposed the medical entrance test and ensured that it did not set foot in the state.

"The travails due to enforcement of the eligibility test was because the AIADMK regime under K Palaniswami allowed the test to be conducted, despite DMK’s efforts to keep it at bay," he said, as reported by Indian Express.

“We didn’t accept it. We have been opposing it from the beginning. NEET did not enter Tamil Nadu when Kalaignar (M Karunanidhi) and AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa ruled. But you allowed your ally the BJP to enforce it,” Stalin claimed.

Palaniswami, who is the leader of the opposition, said, "We had no choice but to implement the order of the Supreme Court on the subject. The then AIADMK government opposed NEET. An Assembly resolution was adopted and sent to the union government for favourable action."

while raising the issue, Palaniswami blamed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime of which the DMK was a constituent, for introducing the national-level screening test.

The Stalin-led government has been trying to remove the NEET entrance test from the state as they opine that the entrance exam favours affluent candidates and give no scope to the aspirants from rural areas of the state. Despite the opposition, during NEET UG 2022, 10,572 more students in the state cleared the exam.

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