All parties except BJP rally behind DMK to re-adopt NEET exemption Bill
The Hindu
Leaders also demanded that the UG medical admissions reservation for State government students be increased from 7.5% to 15%
All political parties in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly except the BJP, whose four members walked out, rallied behind the ruling DMK government in the House against the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) on Tuesday.
Representatives of the principal opposition party, the AIADMK, and other parties, spoke in support of the re-adoption of the Bill to dispense with NEET for undergraduate medical degree courses in the special session of the Assembly. Some of them even pushed for increasing the reservation for State government students from 7.5% to 15%.
Presenting the issue before the House, Speaker M. Appavu pointed out that in June 2021 then Governor Banwarilal Purohit in his customary address to the House voiced the State’s position seeking an exemption from NEET.
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