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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) nationalist convener Arvind Kejriwal connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) deed retired astatine the Centre implicit the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) 2026 insubstantial leak and called connected students to instrumentality to the streets implicit the issue. The time was marked by demonstrations by respective pupil outfits against the National Testing Agency (NTA) extracurricular Shastri Bhawan, which houses the Union Education Ministry headquarters.
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The erstwhile Chief Minister accused the Centre of jeopardising students’ future. “Those who cannot behaviour adjacent 1 introspection decently without leaks, however volition they tally a government?” helium said portion addressing a property league astatine the enactment headquarters.
“I basal with each those [affected] children. I privation to archer the students that they volition person to travel retired connected the streets. This authorities understands lone the connection of agitation. Kejriwal is with you,” said the AAP chief.
Claiming that NEET papers person been leaked thrice earlier — successful 2017, 2021, and 2024 — Mr. Kejriwal alleged collusion astatine a “very precocious level”.
“Papers bash not get leaked connected their own. There is connivance and governmental patronage. I privation to cognize wherever the radical who leaked the 2017 insubstantial are today. Were they punished? Were those who leaked the 2021 insubstantial punished? Those who leaked the 2024 insubstantial are each retired connected bail,” helium said.
Seeking accountability
Students’ outfits, including the Left-aligned Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), held protests extracurricular demanding accountability from the NTA. Several SFI members were detained and taken distant by the constabulary to a determination connected the outskirts of Delhi.
Aishe Ghosh, the State caput of SFI (Delhi), said the cancellation of the NEET-UG exam followed a signifier of recurring failures nether the NTA. “Since the NTA has taken implicit the work of conducting nationalist competitory exams specified arsenic CUET, NET and NEET, insubstantial leaks person go a norm,” she said. She called for the NTA to beryllium scrapped and for the authorities to instrumentality implicit the work of conducting examinations. Ms. Ghosh said her organisation volition motorboat a nationwide agitation implicit the contented successful the coming days.
‘Students scared’
Mehina Fatima, associated caput of the SFI, alleged a nexus betwixt the NTA and backstage coaching centres. “The [affected] students aren’t present due to the fact that they are excessively frightened that if they protestation against the government, they mightiness not beryllium allowed to retake the exam,” she alleged.
NSUI nationalist president Vinod Jakhar demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and a prohibition connected the NTA. “Today’s determination to cancel NEET is simply a triumph of pupil powerfulness and of the dependable of lakhs of aspirants crossed the country,” helium said.
