New Delhi: Greater than two dozen college students from totally different universities and members of varied college students’ outfits had been detained on Thursday whereas they had been protesting in opposition to the cancellation of the UGC-NET examination and irregularities within the NEET.
The scholars had been detained from outdoors the Ministry of Training in addition to the Training Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s residence right here in central Delhi.
Numerous college students, together with members of political outfits such because the College students’ Federation of India (SFI), All India College students Affiliation (AISA), Democratic College students’ Entrance (DSF), Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS), and Congress-affiliated NSUI participated within the protest.
The scholars gathered outdoors the Training Ministry and Pradhan’s residence demanding a ban on the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA), the physique which conducts the examination and a probe into the alleged paper leak.
The Union Training Ministry late Wednesday evening ordered the cancellation of UGC-NET following inputs of the examination’s integrity being compromised.
“We’ve seen large discrepancies on the results of NEET-UG declared on four June. NEET aspirants have been demanding a re-exam. Nonetheless the NTA and the MoE has not responded to their calls for.
“Now the UGC NET examination has been cancelled as a result of paper leak… NTA has failed college students again and again. We demand an entire scrapping of the NTA,” AISA unit of JNU in an announcement stated.
College students who joined the protest had been manhandled and assaulted by the police, the outfits alleged. “Feminine college students had been heckled and manhandled brutally,” stated the SFI.
The DSF stated, “As an alternative of addressing the issues of the scholars and holding the NTA accountable, the Delhi Police brutally attacked and detained a number of college students together with JNUSU representatives from the protest web site.”
The claims had been refuted by the police who stated permission was not taken to protest within the excessive safety space, which stays underneath part 144.
The scholars outfits additionally demanded the resignation of the Union Training Minister Dharmender Pradhan over the alleged corruption within the exams.
Earlier within the day, a number of members of the Nationwide College students’ Union of India had been detained whereas protesting outdoors Pradhan’s residence right here.
In the course of the protest, NSUI nationwide president Varun Choudhary flung a bag stuffed with counterfeit foreign money within the air and demanded an pressing probe into the matter.
