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The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) jointly organised a protestation astatine Dharna Chowk successful Vijayawada connected Sunday (June 7, 2026), demanding the contiguous resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. They alleged that helium was liable for a bid of failures by the National Testing Agency (NTA), including the NEET insubstantial leak, irregularities successful UGC-NET applications, flaws successful CBSE evaluations, and the last-minute cancellation of CUET-UG examinations.
Addressing the gathering, SFI State caput K. Prasanna Kumar and DYFI State caput G. Ramanna alleged that the Central authorities has been handling the aboriginal of millions of students from crossed the state with negligence. They stated that the NTA, which is liable for conducting national-level entranceway and competitory examinations, has wholly failed successful its duty.
The leaders pointed retired that recurring lapses successful the behaviour of examinations specified arsenic NEET, UGC-NET, and CUET implicit the past fewer years person created uncertainty among students, portion the authorities has failed to instrumentality meaningful reforms. They stated that the NEET insubstantial leak has caused anxiousness among millions of students and parents and criticised the authorities for not taking stringent enactment against those responsible.
They further alleged that 22 students person died by termination owed to the intelligence distress caused by examination-related irregularities. Technical glitches successful the UGC-NET exertion process, disorder successful introspection management, complaints regarding CBSE valuation and the abrupt cancellation of CUET-UG examinations had severely affected students’ intelligence well-being, they said.
The leaders demanded the abolition of NTA and called for the decentralisation of introspection administration, including handing implicit the behaviour of NEET to the States. They besides demanded that Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan judge motivation work and resign immediately, informing that they would intensify their agitation if their demands were not met.
DYFI State president Y. Ramu, territory president P. Krishna, SFI State adjunct caput Sheikh Sameer and leaders Nizamuddin, Krishna, Raj Kumar, Praneetha and Shanmukh were among those who participated successful the protest.
