Chennai: The Tamil Nadu unit of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday staged demonstrations across the state supporting the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for medical aspirants to counter the protests against the entrance test following the death of a 17-year-old medical aspirant in the state.
Participating in the demonstration at Tambaram, BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan said DMK president M Karunanidhi would have welcomed NEET had he been politically active like before.
"The DMK leader would have done so considering the welfare of the people and the state", she said, hitting out at DMK working chief M K Stalin who has been organising anti-NEET protests.
Responding to Soundararajan statement, Stalin said it was a remark “below the standards,” and declined to comment, according to PTI.
Senior BJP leader H Raja, participating in the demonstration at a separate location here, said the claim that NEET was against social justice was not true. He said reservation policy was being followed in the admissions to medical courses under the national test.
Similar demonstrations were held by the BJP in other parts of the state.
The BJP’s demonstrations comes in the backdrop of statewide protests by student bodies and pro-Tamil outfits seeking ‘justice’ for 17-year-old Anitha.
Anitha, a Dalit student from Tamil Nadu who was among the state toppers in the 12th board exam scoring 1176 marks out of the total 1200 marks has allegedly committed suicide.
Anitha, despite topping the TN board, could score just 86 out of the total 700 marks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2017 exam and hence could not get admission in a medical college. NEET is the national level exam mandatory for admission to MBBS and BDS courses.
Anitha, hails from Kuzhumur village in Ariyalur, one of the backward districts of Tamil Nadu. She went to the Supreme Court challenging the NEET. She had moved the Supreme Court seeking an exemption from the test for students like her who had studied under Tamil Nadu's own education board.
She had also told the court in her petition that the NEET question paper was heavily CBSE-based and was unfair to state syllabus students.
The Supreme Court however ruled that medical admissions in Tamil Nadu will be based on the national admission test.
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