Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has launched a new round of attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Testing Agency (NTA) following the announcement that the UGC-NET for three subjects would be re-conducted due to faulty question papers.
The NTA announced the re-examination nearly two months after the tests were held. The NTA, which had been firefighting the fallout of the NEET paper leak protests, yesterday said the UGC-NET for English, Commerce and Sociology have been cancelled and the exams would be held fresh. The protest against the NEET paper leak had cost Dharmendra Pradhan his Union Education Minister’s post.
Rahul Gandhi, drawing the prime minister’s attention to the matter, said in a post on X, “Modi ji, look at what your NTA has just done. The NTA said it took the decision after a special committee looked into complaints about faulty question papers. The Congress leader said Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation was the first step, not the last, in fixing the system. “The NTA’s leadership must be held accountable too.”
The Congress MP criticised the testing agency for forcing students to bear the brunt of its administrative failures. “Thousands of candidates who prepared for years, filled forms, paid the fees, travelled to distant centres, must now do it all again in September.
NTA makes the mistake but the student serves the sentence,” he said.
