Chennai: Inaugurating the demonstration against NEET by all students organisations here on Wednesday, Justice D.Hariparanthaman, a retired judge of Madras High Court, said that protest by the students will bring a solution to the NEET issue.
Students associations, including Students Federation of India, All India Student Federation and students wings of DMK, MDMK, VCK and others have come together to form Federation of Student Organisations -Tamil Nadu to protect the interests of the state in NEET issue.
“If the state government placed the demand for NEET exemption during the presidential election the central government would have listened to it. But the state government did not press the demand,” Justice Hariparanthaman said.
“The central government has unilaterally brought the NEET without getting the consent from the respective state governments. All the student organisations are united in the fight against NEET. The students' protest will definitely bring an end to the NEET issue”.
P.B. Prince Gajendrababu, general secretary, State Platform for Common School System urged the health secretary J.Radhakrishnan and health minister C.Vijayabaskar to take up the moral responsibility for failing to protect the state's rights on NEET issue and step down.
“When the Supreme Court stayed the medical admissions it said the interests of both the NEET qualified candidates and state board students should not be affected. But by ordering the NEET based medical admissions the interest of state board students has been affected. The state government should immediately have filed the writ petition. Instead, it hurriedly conducted the medical admissions,” he said.
“The Supreme Court has extended the deadline for deemed universities and the state also might have got it,” he added.
“We are voicing that all India level exam will lead to malpractices. At the MBBS counselling, many students have submitted bogus nativity certificates and our stand on all India exam is vindicated,” he pointed out.
