DMK MPs urge Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu to advise Centre against NEET

A meeting of the newly-elected DMK MPs, on Saturday, demanded that the Centre abolish NEET in the wake of large scale irregularities in the conduct of examination for admission to medical courses.

A meeting of the newly-elected DMK MPs, on Saturday, demanded that the Centre abolish NEET in the wake of large scale irregularities in the conduct of examination for admission to medical courses.

A resolution adopted in the meeting chaired by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin urged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu, the alliance partners of the BJP, to consider the plea and advise the Centre to abolish the test.

“States that seek exemption from NEET should be allowed to dispense with the test. We will raise the issue in Parliament,” said a resolution. The meeting was also attended by DMK’s Rajya Sabha members.

Another resolution condemned the Centre’s decision to involve the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) instead of Parliament Security Service (PSS) for security of the Parliament complex. “The Parliament belongs to the MPs who are elected by the people. There is a lot of difference between security arrangements in public places and the Parliament. The PSS cadre are trained to identify and deal with current and former members of the Parliament. Handing over the task to the CISF will create a lot of difficulties,” the resolution warned.

The meeting also condemned the removal of the statues of Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar from the Parliament complex and urged the government to restore them in the same place.

Yet another resolution said the people of Tamil Nadu had defeated the BJP in the Lok Sabha poll since the government at the Centre had failed to compensate the State for the loss from GST, allot adequate funds for the Metro Rail Project and construct the building for AIIMS in Madurai.

“Tamil Nadu was not given its due in central schemes and railway projects. The Centre remained indifferent to the State of Tamil Nadu and the Tamil language. The Governor of the State constantly created problems for the State government and the Centre had treated Tamil people as secondary citizens,” the resolution alleged.