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NEW DELHI: Leader of absorption successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi connected Sunday upped the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi implicit the NEET-UG 2026 insubstantial leak and questioned wherefore Union acquisition curate Dharmendra Pradhan had not been removed from office.In a station connected X, Rahul compared the handling of the 2024 and 2026 NEET insubstantial leak cases and asked PM Modi to reply questions raised by the nation.
“NEET 2024: The insubstantial was leaked. The exam wasn’t cancelled. The curate didn’t resign. The CBI launched an investigation. A committee was formed. NEET 2026: The insubstantial was leaked. The exam was cancelled. The curate inactive didn’t resign. The CBI is investigating again. Another committee volition beryllium formed,” the Congress person said."Modi ji, the federation has immoderate questions for you — reply them! Why are insubstantial leaks happening again and again? Why are you soundless connected this repeated ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’? Why haven’t you sacked the acquisition curate who’s failing clip and again?” helium added.The National Testing Agency connected Tuesday cancelled NEET-UG 2026, conducted connected May 3, aft investigators recovered grounds that respective questions akin to those successful the introspection insubstantial had been circulated earlier the test.
The authorities aboriginal handed implicit the lawsuit to the Central Bureau of Investigation, portion the introspection volition present beryllium reconducted connected June 21.The cancellation has affected astir 23 lakh aspirants and marks the archetypal clip the full NEET-UG introspection has been scrapped since the NTA took implicit conducting the trial successful 2019. In 2024, the exam was partially reconducted for 1,563 students pursuing discrepancies successful marks.Meanwhile, the CBI connected Saturday arrested different alleged mastermind successful the case.
The accused, identified arsenic Manisha Gurunath Mandhare, is simply a elder Botany teacher from Pune, Maharashtra.According to the agency, Mandhare was arrested successful Delhi aft questioning. Investigators alleged that she was the root of leaked Biology questions successful the aesculapian entranceway examination.The CBI said Mandhare was associated with the NEET-UG 2026 introspection process and had been appointed by the NTA arsenic an expert, giving her entree to Botany and Zoology question papers.Rahul Gandhi had besides questioned the Centre connected Friday implicit the rising fig of suicides linked to the NEET insubstantial leak controversy. Referring to the decease of a 21-year-old pupil successful Uttar Pradesh who allegedly died by termination aft the exam cancellation, helium said, “These youngsters didn’t suffer to the exams; they were killed by a corrupt system. This isn’t termination — it’s execution by the system.”
