With suicides of over a dozen students due to NEET exams snowballing into a major controversy in Tamil Nadu, the ruling AIADMK and the opposition DMK are engaged in fierce political battle over the issue.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami in the Assembly assailed the DMK for the suicide of 13 students due to NEET. On the second day of the Assembly session on Tuesday, the Chief Minister rebutted the allegations of the DMK saying that NEET was introduced in 2010 when DMK was in alliance with Congress.
EPS asked the DMK as to why it did not stop the Congress from introducing NEET in 2010. The political storm erupted in the Assembly when a special attention motion was moved by the DMK on the NEET issue and the deaths associated with it. DMK chief M.K. Stalin demanded that a resolution be passed in the state against the Centre for not exempting Ta- mil Nadu from NEET.
Meanwhile, Congress MLAs in the assembly were evicted for creating a ruckus. Congress MLAs reacted to AIADMK MLA Inbadurai’s accusation that Congress was having double standards on the NEET issue.
MLA Inba Durai said that former Union finance minister P. Chidambaram’s wife Nalini Chidambaram appeared in the SC in favour of NEET, but Congress was now saying they are against NEET.
Meanwhile, in the mo- tion DMK also demanded that the government should take steps to ensure that the admissions for the medical course in the state happen based on 12th board marks obtained by the students.