Rama Krishna Sangem
Rahul Gandhi appears to be sharpening Congress attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 3.0 government through its failure in NEET paper leakage. “If you can stop war, why cannot you st op NEET paper leakage?” is the question Rahul asked Modi on June 20. Rahul’s attack on Modi comes in the wake of the Supreme Court taking up various petitions on NEET papaer leakage a day before.
“It’s happening because our institutions have been compromised. Our vice-chancellors are appointed not based on merit, but because they belong to a specific organisation,” said Gandhi, alleging that the BJP has “penetrated” the country’s education system and destroyed it.
“What Narendra Modi did to the economy with demonetisation has now been done to the education system. The reason this is happening and the reason you’re suffering is because an independent, objective education system has been demolished… It is important that those who are guilty here are held accountable and punished,” he said.
On Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan giving the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the exam, a clean chit, Rahul Gandhi said, “They [Centre] have no credibility in these matters. If they give clean chit, it means nothing, their credibility is zero. Everybody knows that the epicenters are Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.”
Rahul Gandhi, in a way hinting that Congress and INDIA block parties would keep the ruling NDA government on its toes toes during the upcoming inaugural budget session of Lok Sabha, expected next month. As the SC and other probes pont to a failure of systems in NEET examination conduct, the Modi government will find it difficult to save its image on this sensitive matter.
