Chennai: DMK working president M K Stalin on Monday demanded the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which conducted the Neet for medical aspirants on Sunday, to apologise for “illtreating Tamil Nadu students” when they participated in the Neet entrance exam on Sunday.
He said the procedure followed for frisking the students gave one the impression that Tamil Nadu students indulged in malpractices during examinations.
Speaking to reporters after distributing welfare assistance to the people at his Kolathur Assembly constituency on Monday, he said the Tamil Nadu legislative Assembly had passed a resolution to exempt the State from the purview of Neet and the same had been sent to the Centre for obtaining the President’s nod.
The DMK leader said measures should be taken to get the President’s ascent to the resolution at the earliest.
“This is against democratic norms,” Mr. Stalin said while responding to the question on Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam participating at a function to mark the laying of the foundation stone for former CM J. Jayalalithaa’s memorial here on Monday morning.
“Those indulging in corruption are building a memorial for an accused,” he said reacting to the move by the Tamil Nadu government to erect a memorial for the former Chief Minister at a cost of Rs 50 crore.“
FLSFI members stage stir outside CBSE office
Tension prevailed in Tirumangalam on Monday after members of Students Federation of India (SFI) attempted to stage a protest outside CBSE’s Chennai regional office.
Around 30 SFI members took out a march towards the CBSE office to register their protest against Neet and were stopped by the police and were asked to leave.
However, protesters, mostly students, said they would go ahead with the agitation and raised slogans criticising CBSE and the Centre for the Neet fiasco.
At one stage war of words broke out between the students and the police.
As more students joined the protest, police used mild force to clear the protests and those who continued the agitation were detained.
“Because of Neet we lost Anitha and there is another case one Krishnasamy who accompanied his son to Neet exam, dying of cardiac arrest. The centre and CBSE is responsible for the deaths, our protests will continue until Neet is scrapped,” one of the SFI members said.
“We have been protesting against Neet and will not change our stand like other political parties,” said a women student who was released after a brief detention.
