“Will he apologise?” BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad slams Rahul Gandhi for calling examination system ‘fraud’

New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday slammed the Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for calling the examination system “fraud” and asked if, after the Supreme Court verdict, the latter would apologise.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to cancel the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Under Graduate (NEET-UG) 2024 examination held on May 5, holding that there was no systemic breach in the exam.

“It is important to put some facts in front of the nation. around 23.5 lakh students took part in the NEET examination of 2024. This examination was in about 571 cities and 40750 centres. The government itself handed over the investigation to the CBI. In the CBI investigation, it was said that in Hazaribagh and Patna, the complaints of 155 students were reported. The candidature of 155 students has been cancelled.

He further said that the Apex Court examined the results of three years, that is, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

“The Supreme Court examined 22, 23 and 24 results. The Supreme Court found no material irregularities to order the cancellation of the entire examination. The Supreme Court has said that there is no need to hold the exams again. This is the big thing that has happened,” he added.

The BJP MP further slammed the Congress party and said that during the Congress regime, many paper issue cases were reported.

“Rahul Gandhi was shouting that there is fraud and all and many things. Do you (Rahul Gandhi) want to defame the examination system of our country? During the Congress regime, the papers were leaked many times. Will Rahul Gandhi apologise? Why is Rahul Gandhi insulting his own country? ” he added.

Earlier on Tuesday, a bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said that at the present stage, there is an absence of material on record to lead to the conclusion that the result of the exam is vitiated or that there is any systematic breach.

The bench the data on record is not indicative of a systemic leak of the NEET-UG question paper, which would indicate a disruption of the sanctity of the exam.

However, it acknowledged the fact that the leak of the NEET-UG paper took place at Hazaribagh and Patna and said that it is “not in dispute”.

Earlier on Monday, speaking in Lok Sabha during the Budget Session, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi asked Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan about the various steps the Ministry is undertaking to fix the alleged “systemic” rot in the present examination system and claimed that millions of students believe that the “system” is “fraud.”

“As this is a systemic issue, what exactly are you doing to fix this issue at the systemic level,” Rahul Gandhi asked.

Elaborating on his claim that all major examinations in the country suffer from a “serious problem,” Gandhi said, “It is obvious to the whole country that there is a very serious problem in our examination system. This is not just in the question of NEET but in all the major examinations.”