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The Congress connected Friday (May 22, 2026) said it was shocked implicit claims made by top NTA officials that the NEET exam paper was "not leaked", and said some the 'Pradhan Mantri' and the 'Mantri Pradhan' indispensable beryllium held accountable for this "cover-up".
The Congress besides said that the National Testing Agency (NTA) has go a "National Trauma Agency" and accused the authorities of colluding with the insubstantial leak mafia to suppress the information of irregularities and fraud.
In a station connected X, Congress wide caput in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh said a "guess paper" featuring questions that appeared successful the existent exam was circulating among students overmuch earlier the exam date.
Since the NTA was formed successful 2018, the Modi Government and its ecosystem person been colluding with the insubstantial leak mafia to suppress the information of rampant irregularities and fraud successful NTA-conducted exams.
Today we person learnt from media reports that the NTA Director General claimed…
"Since the NTA was formed successful 2018, the Modi Government and its ecosystem person been colluding with the insubstantial leak mafia to suppress the information of rampant irregularities and fraud successful NTA-conducted exams," helium alleged successful his post.
"Today we person learnt from media reports that the NTA Director General claimed yesterday to a Parliamentary Committee that the NEET-UG 2026 exam was not leaked.
If true, this is scandalous and shockingly dishonest - due to the fact that it is wide that a 'guess paper' which featured dozens of questions that appeared successful the existent exam was circulating among students overmuch earlier the exam date. If that is not a leak, what is? Why is the Modi Government trying to contradict it now?" Mr. Ramesh said.
He alleged the Modi authorities had antecedently tried to "cover up" the wide irregularities that had emerged successful NEET-UG 2024 arsenic well.
"If it had faced up to the information and taken enactment then, the NEET 2026 calamity whitethorn person been avoided. The aforesaid hotspots of reported fraud which emerged successful 2024 — similar Rajasthan's Sikar — person been implicated successful the 2026 ungraded arsenic well," helium said.
The Congress person said successful different occurrence of the aforesaid "disturbing series", the CBI besides filed a closure study alleging nary irregularities successful the UGC-NET exam of 2024 which had been cancelled by the NTA backmost then.
When asked by a Delhi tribunal to supply a written mentation for its closure report, the CBI has asked for much time, helium said.
"While the Court has thankfully pulled up the CBI for this delay, the CBI's actions animate nary assurance successful the agency's information to bash justness to its ongoing probes into NEET.
"For the lakhs of aspiring younker of our country, the NTA has go the National Trauma Agency," Ramesh said.
The CBSE, NCERT, and different institutions of the Education Ministry (including Central Universities) are nary better, helium said.
"The Education Minister is presiding implicit a strategy successful which nonrecreational excellence is astatine a discount and wherever ideological affinity commands a premium," helium claimed.
"Both the Pradhan Mantri and the Mantri Pradhan indispensable beryllium held accountable for this colossal calamity and its ongoing cover-up," Mr. Ramesh said.
Several members of Parliament grilled apical NTA officials connected Thursday, with the agency's manager wide telling them that the NEET-UG insubstantial was not leaked done their strategy and the CBI is probing the matter, sources said.
During a gathering of the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, respective MPs questioned the NTA officials connected the steps taken by them to fortify the exam strategy successful bid to forestall insubstantial leaks successful the future.
