Demanding an investigation under the supervision of a retired Supreme Court judge, the Haryana Aam Aadmi Party staged protests on Wednesday, over the alleged irregularities in medical entrance exam NEET.
The protests were held in various districts including Kurukshetra, Palwal, Sonipat, Jind, and Mahendragarh. Accompanied by party workers, the party's Haryana unit chief Sushil Gupta staged a demonstration in the Kurukshetra district.
Gupta said, "The matter pertains to the future of lakhs of students across the country. Students and their parents are worried. So many questions are unanswered, but the government is not speaking up."
Later, in a post on X in Hindi, he wrote, "We demand that the NEET scam be investigated under the supervision of a retired Supreme Court judge and the exam be cancelled and held again."
The party's Chandigarh unit also staged a protest. Some AAP leaders and workers here alleged that they were briefly detained by police when they wanted to go to hand over a memorandum to Punjab Governor-cum-Chandigarh UT Administrator, Banwarilal Purohit, to demand a probe into the alleged irregularities in NEET and re-conducting of the exam.
Gupta added that until this happens, the AAP will continue its fight from the streets to the Parliament.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said that even if there was "0.001 percent negligence" on the part of anyone in the conduct of the NEET-UG 2024 examination, it should be thoroughly dealt with.
Observing that students have to labour hard while preparing for these examinations, the apex court had said the litigation pertaining to the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate)-2024 examination ought not to be treated as adversarial.
The examination was held on May 5 across 4,750 centres and around 24 lakh candidates took it. The results were expected to be declared on June 14 but were announced on June 4, apparently because the evaluation of the answer sheets got completed earlier.
There have been allegations of question paper leaks in states like Bihar and other irregularities in the prestigious exam. The allegations have led to protests in several cities and the filing of petitions in several high courts as also the Supreme Court.
The NEET-UG examination is conducted by the National Testing Agency for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, and other related courses in the government and private institutions across the country.
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