Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has intensified his criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Testing Agency (NTA). His remarks follow the NTA’s announcement that the UGC-NET examination for three subjects will be re-administered due to issues with the question papers. Gandhi’s statements highlight concerns about accountability in the government’s handling of educational assessments.
“The NTA still won’t answer the real question – were these papers leaked before the exam? 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. 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.
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. NTA makes the mistake but the student serves the sentence,” he said. Just like every other compromised paper, I am absolutely sure there will be no accountability,” he said. 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.”
He asked whether the question papers were already compromised well before the tests were held.
