New Delhi, July 22 (UNI) The Congress in the Lok Sabha on Monday flayed the Government over the NEET paper leak issue and demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, given the gravity of the situation.
INC member Manickam Tagore, during the question hour alleged that in the last seven years, paper leak incidents have happened 70 times and asked the Minister to provide specific details on the missions being implemented to ensure the integrity of the examination process and to prevent future incidents of paper leaks.
The Education Minister said, “There is no evidence of paper leak in the last seven years”.
Protesting against this, the Opposition raised slogans.
The Minister further said that after the formation of NTA, more that 240 examinations have been conducted and more than five crore students have applied and more than 4.5 crore students have successfully participated in the examinations.
On his resignation demand, Pradhan said, “I am here on the mercy of the Prime Minister and whenever the accountability comes my government is collectively answerable to that”.
He said that the government was not hiding anything. Action have been taken. There has been only one incident which is around Patna and stressed that Bihar Police and the CBI were proactively taking action in that.
