Congress demands Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over alleged UGC-NET irregularities

The Congress on Thursday attacked the Modi government over the alleged irregularities in the UGCNET exam demanding that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan must resign and the NTA be disbandedCongress general secretary Jairam Ramesh shared on X a media report which stated that several students who appeared for the Sociology paper in the University Grants CommissionNational Eligibility Test UGCNET on June 30 have alleged that the examination was leakedHe said that days after the NEETUG exam was leaked in May 2026 the Mantri Pradhan announced that the NEET exam would now be conducted via a computerbased test CBT from next year onwardsThe implicit promise was that a CBT paper cannot be leaked unlike a pen and paper examination Ramesh said on XNow there are reports that the UGCNET Sociology examination this year appears to have been leaked despite being a CBT Earlier we had seen that questions in the UGCNET English Exam were wholesale lifted from past papers without any changes Ramesh saidThe bottom line is that whatever be the format of the exam paper leaks and irregularities are occurring because the Modi governments Education Ministry is compromised and the National Testing Agency NTA is deliberately incompetent and incapacitated the Congress general secretary incharge communications allegedThe Mantri Pradhan must resign and the NTA must be disbanded Ramesh saidCongress leader Rahul Gandhi had also attacked the Modi government on Wednesday over alleged irregularities in the UGCNET exam saying it continues to turn a blind eye and sleep soundly despite repeated scams as years of hard work put in by lakhs of students hold no value for itThe Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha had said the entire country knows that it is futile to expect any accountability or action from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and PradhanGandhi had shared on X a screenshot of a media report claiming that student leaders in Rohtak Haryana had levelled serious allegations regarding the UGCNET June 2026 examination conducted by the NTAIn his post in Hindi Gandhi had said The serious allegations that have surfaced regarding last weeks UGCNET exam are utterly shocking Just a few weeks after the NEET paper leak reports are now emerging that a 100page PDF was circulated right before the UGCNET examThis PDF pertains to the question paper setting which is available only with the NTA Nearly 90 questions in the PDF match those from the actual Sociology question paper he had saidEven after the repeated scams in NEET and NET the Modi government continues to turn a blind eye and sleep soundly because the years of hard work put in by lakhs of students who burn the midnight oil hold no value for them the former Congress chief had saidThere was no immediate response to the allegations from the NTA that conducts nationallevel higher education entrance examsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever