The Indian Express (Delhi Edition)
Cong poses 5 questions to Govt; misleading students on lies not right: Pradhan
CONTINUING ITS attack on the government, the Congress said Friday that Minister of Education D harm end rap rad han’ s dismissal of widespread protests and student outrage over the NEET-UG examination as motivated was like “rubbing salt on the wounds of 24 lakh aspirants”.
Pradhan said the Congress was misleading students and had not come out with any evidence to prove paper leak. “They have just lost the elections and are now looking for a new issue. We have the facts, and misleading students and the public based on lies is not right,” he told reporters on Friday.
Pradhan attributed the surge in the number of high achievers and the increase of cut-off marks this year to a few factors, including reduction in NEET syllabus in accordance with the recent rationalisations of textbooks undertaken by the NCERT.
At a press conference in Delhi on Friday, Chairman, Media & Publicity Department, AICC, Paw ankh era asked five questions to the government and Pradhan. The first pertained to allegations of paper leak in bi har,w here medical aspirants allegedly paid huge sums of money to access the Ne e t-ug question paper ahead of the exam on May 5. The second was on the alleged cheating rack et busted in gujarat’ s god hr a involving three people. The third on the record number of toppers (67) who scored a perfect score of 720 marks and the fourth on an unusually high number of candidates scoring well above 690 marks this year. the final question on why the NEET-UG results “were declared 10 days earlier”.
Pradhan denied allegations of paper leak, however, added that if at all anything is proven true, “no one will be spared”.