Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Opposition spar over NEET in state
India TodayDravida Munnetra Kazhagam President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday assured all efforts to ensure National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test exemption for the state, as his son and cabinet minister Udhayanidhi led the party's state-wide hunger strike demanding the abolition of the test. The DMK will not stop till Tamil Nadu gets exemption from the central qualifying test for medical courses, Stalin said, while the opposition BJP slammed the ruling party in the state for "politicising" NEET. Addressing a massive state conference of the party here, he asked DMK leaders -- Chief Minister M K Stalin and his son Udhayanidhi -- to not to "fool" students on NEET. Palaniswami's remarks came soon after state minister Udhayanidhi Stalin led the DMK's Tamil Nadu-wide hunger strike demanding for scrapping of NEET, where the party's youth wing leader had even challenged AIADMK to adopt an anti-NEET resolution in the Madurai conference.