New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has sharply criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the National Testing Agency (NTA) after the cancellation and rescheduling of UGC NET examinations for English, Commerce and Sociology due to faulty question papers.
In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi accused the NTA of making students pay the price for administrative failures. Addressing the Prime Minister directly, he wrote, “Modi ji, look at what your NTA has just done,” adding that thousands of aspirants who spent years preparing, paid examination fees and travelled to distant centres would now have to repeat the entire process.
Calling the situation a failure of the education system, Gandhi said it had become “an extraction machine” that takes students’ time, money and mental well being while offering little certainty in return. He also questioned whether the question papers had been compromised before the examinations and demanded a transparent investigation into the matter.
Rahul Gandhi said the resignation of former Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was only the first step towards reform, insisting that the NTA’s leadership must also be held accountable for repeated controversies surrounding national entrance examinations.
The NTA announced the re examinations nearly two months after the original tests were conducted, stating that the decision followed the recommendations of a special committee that reviewed complaints about faulty question papers.
According to the revised schedule, English and Commerce examinations will be held on September 9, while the Sociology paper will be conducted on September 10. The agency clarified that no additional fee will be charged for affected candidates and that results for the remaining 84 subjects will be declared as planned, with no reduction in the overall number of seats.
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