NEW DELHI: Opposition leaders on Thursday mounted an attack on the National Testing Agency (NTA) after the UGC-NET exam was cancelled and accused the agency as well as the Union government of destroying the future of students who appeared for these exams.
The UGC cancelled the UGC-NET examination on Wednesday, a day after it was held, after receiving certain inputs from the National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the ministry of home affairs on the examination.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the Centre saying the paper mafia is “rigging exams” under BJP rule. The former UP chief minister said if the police recruitment exam is leaked, it will have a bearing on law and order while if there is a fraud in the NEET exam, honest people will not become doctors. Likewise, the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam will have a bearing on the education system. “Under the BJP rule, the paper mafia is rigging every exam, one after the other. This could also be someone’s big conspiracy against the country,” Yadav charged on X.
Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale said “The examination process structure of our country has crashed. Paper leaks and irregularities are rampant and the useless NTA is complicit in it,” in his post on X.
“After the NEET fiasco, the UGC-NET has now been cancelled – literally 1 day after students wrote the exam. The lives and futures of our students are being destroyed every day and the NDA 1.0 govt is shameless to even take responsibility,” he said, adding that, “Incompetent education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been repeated despite being an utter failure. The same is with Ashwini Vaishnaw as railway minister & now we saw a train crash just days ago. They need to be sacked.”
The Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) slammed the Centre over the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam, saying it has exposed another “failure” of the BJP-led government in running the country’s education system, in Mumbai. A few days ago, the NEET exam issue brought to the fore the “malpractices” and “favouritism” prevailing in the education system, said NCP (SP)’s national spokesperson Clyde Crasto in a statement. “The central government, by failing in doing their duty diligently towards the students of our country are disrespecting their hard work and also playing with their lives,” he said.
RJD MP Manoj Jha demanded that the NEET exam should also be cancelled. “You had to scrap NET and you must scrap NEET now as there is ample proof that this examination was compromised. And it is time to acknowledge that the NTA is a fraud,” he said.
CPM post on X, accused the government of making a mockery of the education system. “First there were discrepancies in CUET, then the NEET Scam, and now UGC-NET was cancelled! The BJP govt has made a complete mockery of the education system,” the CPM said. Party’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas said, “When NEET to NET collapses… see how saffronisation (is) done; NET qstns (questions) for a Theatre student – Ayodhya pranprathishta date, how Hanuman is described, the sloka in Ramayan, beheaded but kept alive in Mahabharata, Hindi exponent… How do we intend to mould our next generation?”
The UGC cancelled the UGC-NET examination on Wednesday, a day after it was held, after receiving certain inputs from the National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the ministry of home affairs on the examination.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the Centre saying the paper mafia is “rigging exams” under BJP rule. The former UP chief minister said if the police recruitment exam is leaked, it will have a bearing on law and order while if there is a fraud in the NEET exam, honest people will not become doctors. Likewise, the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam will have a bearing on the education system. “Under the BJP rule, the paper mafia is rigging every exam, one after the other. This could also be someone’s big conspiracy against the country,” Yadav charged on X.
Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale said “The examination process structure of our country has crashed. Paper leaks and irregularities are rampant and the useless NTA is complicit in it,” in his post on X.
“After the NEET fiasco, the UGC-NET has now been cancelled – literally 1 day after students wrote the exam. The lives and futures of our students are being destroyed every day and the NDA 1.0 govt is shameless to even take responsibility,” he said, adding that, “Incompetent education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been repeated despite being an utter failure. The same is with Ashwini Vaishnaw as railway minister & now we saw a train crash just days ago. They need to be sacked.”
The Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) slammed the Centre over the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam, saying it has exposed another “failure” of the BJP-led government in running the country’s education system, in Mumbai. A few days ago, the NEET exam issue brought to the fore the “malpractices” and “favouritism” prevailing in the education system, said NCP (SP)’s national spokesperson Clyde Crasto in a statement. “The central government, by failing in doing their duty diligently towards the students of our country are disrespecting their hard work and also playing with their lives,” he said.
RJD MP Manoj Jha demanded that the NEET exam should also be cancelled. “You had to scrap NET and you must scrap NEET now as there is ample proof that this examination was compromised. And it is time to acknowledge that the NTA is a fraud,” he said.
CPM post on X, accused the government of making a mockery of the education system. “First there were discrepancies in CUET, then the NEET Scam, and now UGC-NET was cancelled! The BJP govt has made a complete mockery of the education system,” the CPM said. Party’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas said, “When NEET to NET collapses… see how saffronisation (is) done; NET qstns (questions) for a Theatre student – Ayodhya pranprathishta date, how Hanuman is described, the sloka in Ramayan, beheaded but kept alive in Mahabharata, Hindi exponent… How do we intend to mould our next generation?”
