Tamil Nadu: Scrapping Of NEET Is The Only Way Out: Vijay

The arrest of protestors, including Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, who had joined the agitation against the NEET paper leak in New Delhi, was against democracy and the action of the Union Government was condemnable, Vijay said in a hard-hitting statement on Wednesday, stressing on the need for including the subject of education in the State list and removing it from the concurrent list.

Throwing his party’s weight behind the continuing mass protests outside Parliament in New Delhi and expressing his solidarity with the students, he said that there was no compromise on his party’s position on NEET. The TVK had, at the time of the launch of the party itself, made clear its stand at an award distribution event of the party, Vijay recalled.

The only solution to the present impasse over the students’ protests and the Union Government’s crackdown on the protesters was the total eradication of NEET, he said, adding that if there were any legal hurdles in that, a special concurrent list could be created and education brought under it.

Only through such a measure, the States could be given adequate powers to manage subjects like education on their own, which alone could be the solution to the present crisis, the Chief Minister said.

Taking an indirect swipe at the State’s key opposition party, the DMK, Vijay said his party, however, would not give any false assurance to the people on abolishing NEET for the sake of electoral politics.