Reportedly the DMK on Wednesday staged a walkout from the Tamilnadu Assembly for not receiving a proper reply on the rejection of two bills that sought an exemption to the state students from writing the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). Meanwhile the two bills were sent to the President's office by the Tamilnadu government in 2017 and were recently rejected after 27 months in the office. When speaking at the Assembly, DMK President MK Stalin said that state Law Minister CV Shanmugam had received a reply if not the clarification from the Centre on the rejection of two bills, but he did not brief the Assembly on the same.
Stalin said "It came to light after we [the DMK] questioned about it and got it out”. Furthermore the DMK chief also demanded the resignation of Shanmugam. Further Shanmugam said that the bills have only been put on hold and not rejected and added that the Tamilnadu government had written for a clarification to the President over the same but it did not receive any reply.
Moreover NEET, which was declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2013, was restored in April 2016, by a five judge constitution bench that allowed the Centre and the Medical Council of india (MCI) to implement the common entrance test.
