BJP leader moves High Court against committee to study NEET impact

‘Selection based on Plus Two marks will let in average minds’

BJP State secretary K. Nagarajan has filed a public interest litigation petition before the Madras High Court seeking to quash an order issued by the Tamil Nadu government on June 10, constituting a committee headed by Justice A.K. Rajan to study the impact of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) on medical aspirants. The case has been listed for admission before Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy on Tuesday. Stating that the committee had already begun eliciting opinions from members of the public, the petitioner pressed for an interim stay on the operation of the government order. According to the litigant, the committee had been constituted on the basis of a view taken by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin that government school students and those from rural backgrounds were struggling to get admission to medical colleges owing to the introduction of NEET and therefore, such admissions should be made on the basis of Plus Two marks.