Bhubaneswar: Odisha Congress on Wednesday staged a massive protest in Bhubaneswar against the alleged irregularities in the NEET examination and demanded the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Hundreds of activists led by Chhatra Congress leader Bibhuti Bhushan Mohapatra, under the banner of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), took out a torchlight rally from the Pradesh Congress Committee office towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state headquarters in the city.
However, police personnel stopped the procession midway near Banadurga Temple, leading to a tense face-off between the protesters and the police for nearly an hour.
The agitators also burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dharmendra Pradhan during the demonstration.
On the occasion, Mohapatra alleged that the future of around 22 lakh students had been affected due to the cancellation of the NEET-UG examination.
He further stated that the Union government remained in deep slumber despite leaks of question papers of nearly 90 important examinations during the last 10 years under the PM Modi government, allegedly affecting around 6.5 crore students directly and indirectly.
