Sonia Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray urge Centre to postpone NEET JEE exams.
Opposition leaders demand postponement of JEE Main and NEET exams due to the pandemic situation; Students to protest from home.
The National Testing Agency (NTA’s) choice to proceed with the NEET and JEE tests has created a huge stir online, with students nation over arranging a protest from their homes tomorrow, requesting postponement or scratch-off of tests given the disturbing surge in coronavirus cases. From 8 am, students across India who qualified for the tests are set to “raise black flags from homes, tie black bands on arm or temple, wear black masks, turn their profile pictures BLACK!” to challenge the decision. A few opposition leaders just as the state government has likewise requested that the Centre rethink the tests as infections continue to spike.
Mamata Banerjee and Sonia Gandhi rip into the Centre over NEET JEE Main exams:
On Wednesday, at a meeting of opposition discussing the issue, Mamata Banerjee urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Centre should appeal against the Supreme Court verdict for holding the JEE and NEET exams, during the pandemic to guarantee the students are free from “mental distress”. She wrote to Modi after the state government got a letter from the National Testing Agency to direct the JEE/NEET examinations beginning from 1st September. In a virtual conference with Chief Ministers of seven states, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the central government saying that the Centre’s refusal to not pay GST remuneration to the states was “out and out betrayal”. She further criticized the government for staging the exams and said,” It should stress us. It is a difficulty, for dynamic, secular, and scientific values. Reflects a lack of care of the state. Different issues of students are additionally being managed mercilessly,” said Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
Uddhav Thackeray lends support to postpone NEET JEE exams:
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said today that tests should be conducted later when the circumstance was correct. “In the US, schools were resumed and around 97,000 children got infected. What will we do if this situation happens to us?” he said.
