Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said that NEET was conducted for the first time in the State when the AIADMK was in power and challenged AIADMK co-coordinator Edappadi K. Palaniswami to a one-on-one debate over the issue.
Addressing the party cadre in the district for the urban local bodies election via video conferencing from Chennai on Thursday, Mr. Stalin said that Mr. Palaniswami continued to lie that Congress and DMK introduced NEET in the country. “In 2010, when the Medical Council of India suggested NEET, the then Chief Minister K. Karunanidhi stiffly opposed it and wrote to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh”, he said and added that the DMK went to the Supreme Court in 2013 and the court withdrew the order on medical entrance test.
