Set NEET as tie-up condition: CM dares EPS

Min says NEET entered TN when EPS was CM; oppn leader says wife of a Cong man got SC ruling in favour of test

- T MURUGANANDHAM @ Chennai

SPARKS flew in the Assembly on Monday as Chief Minister MK Stalin and Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami clashed over NEET and the alliance between the principal opposition party and the BJP.

While Stalin dared Palaniswami whether the latter was ready to place abolition of NEET as a condition for continuing ties with the BJP, the LoP charged that the DMK came to power in 2021 by giving a false promise of abolishing NEET.

Intervening in the discussion on the demands for grants for the health department, Transport Minister SS Sivasankar charged that the union government gifted 11 medical colleges to Tamil Nadu during the previous AIADMK regime in reciprocation for the latter's 'betrayal' over NEET.

AIADMK MLAs objected to this strongly, and Palaniswami alleged that it was the Congress-led UPA government, in which DMK was present, that introduced NEET.