DMK goes hammer and tongs at BJP leader for filing case against NEET committee

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has gone hammer and tongs at K. Nagarajan, State secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for having filed a case within the Madras High Court against the structure of Justice A.K. Rajan committee by the Tamil Nadu authorities to check the impression of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) on medical admissions.

In an affidavit filed in help of its impleading petition, DMK organising secretary R.S. Bharathi stated Mr. Nagarajan was neither a soothsayer nor an astrologer to foretell the end result of the committee and oppose its structure proper at the inception. It additionally claimed that the writ petition filed by the BJP leader was a “byproduct of thorough ignorance of law and facts”.

The affidavit filed by way of senior counsel P. Wilson said that “it requires a degree of extraordinary perversion to seek to oppose such constitution of a high-level committee to study the impact of NEET on students from socially and economically backward classes. It boggles the mind as to what grievance anybody can possibly have for a committee to study the impact of NEET on the children of Tamil Nadu.”

“Our ideal of securing social justice in education may be something that is antithetical to the ideals of the writ petitioner [Mr. Nagarajan]. He is clearly unmoved by the heartbreaking incidents of children committing suicide due to NEET. The impleading petitioner party [DMK], however, cannot turn a Nelson’s eye to the plight of our people,” it stated.

Pointing out that the DMK was presently the ruling occasion within the State elected by the folks with a convincing mandate and that it was additionally the third largest occasion within the current Lok Sabha after having gained 38 out of 39 seats within the State, the occasion stated the writ petitioner earlier than the courtroom was not even an elected consultant and that he didn’t even have the locus standi to file the current case.

“The writ petition has been filed on the basis of conjectures and surmises and on hypothetical facts, assumptions and presumptions. The petition is not bona fide and is politically motivated. It is an attempt to prevent the restoration of social justice in education and a level playing field for the students hailing from all walks of life. The petitioner has commercial motivation to help the coaching centres,” the DMK stated.

The case is listed for listening to earlier than Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy on Monday. Many different political events, together with the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, people and organisations too have filed petitions to implead themselves within the case in help of the committee and against the case filed by Mr. Nagarajan.