Delhi RJD MP Manoj Jha on Monday claimed that "NEET corruption" is linked to the elections and the alleged proximity between those named in the document leaks and leaders of the JD(U) and the BJP.
Addressing a press conference here, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Rajya Sabha MP expressed solidarity with the protesting students and accused Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of playing with his future.
"Where is Dharmendra Pradhanji, who gave a pass in this exam? You are playing with the future of students," Jha said.
"Despite everything, the Education Minister gave a nod and fabricated the story that they are forming a high-powered committee. There is enough evidence but no action has been taken against the culprits," he added.
Stating that the exams should be cancelled, he said: "The future of thousands of students cannot be played with. The NTA (National Testing Agency) is a fraud... This NTA should be thrown into the Bay of Bengal."
"We have paid the price of one nation, one test... If you want to make one nation, one election, you can't even hold one test," Jha said, mocking the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre.
He said Pradhan will have to resign.
"There will be resignations, exams will be cancelled, because it is easy to manage Parliament, but they cannot manage the streets. What happened to the farm laws? They had to be withdrawn. They had bypassed Parliament, but they had to eventually be brought back because of the response in the streets," said the RJD leader.
He stated that the same thing will be repeated because "this NEET corruption is also related to the elections. The elections have been done with the money earned from this."
Jha also alleged that the culprits behind the paper leaks are being protected.
"A horror story is being told about a guest house, of which there is no evidence. There is one Sanjiv Mukhiya, who was also the mastermind of BPSC exam rigging...Who is Sanjiv Mukhiya? You don't need science spatial know. His wife is a leader of the Janata Dal (United). Why is there an attempt to protect them?
Jha also named Amit Anand, showed some photographs of a Haryana school owner with the state chief minister and alleged that the school was involved in the fraud.
"For 17 months, when (RJD leader) Tejashwi Yadav was deputy chief minister (of Bihar), no question papers were leaked, five lakh people got jobs and the process to recruit 3.5 lakh people was started," he said .
The RJD leader also alleged a "Bihar-Gujarat" connection in the document leaks.
The NTA has been in the eye of the storm for alleged document leaks and subsequent cancellation of the UGC-NET exam and postponement of the NEET-PG exam.
The Center on Saturday removed NTA Director General Subodh Kumar Singh and put him on "mandatory hold" until further orders.
On Sunday, the CBI took over the probe into alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam, NEET-UG, following a reference from the Union Education Ministry.
Addressing a press conference here, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Rajya Sabha MP expressed solidarity with the protesting students and accused Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of playing with his future.
"Where is Dharmendra Pradhanji, who gave a pass in this exam? You are playing with the future of students," Jha said.
"Despite everything, the Education Minister gave a nod and fabricated the story that they are forming a high-powered committee. There is enough evidence but no action has been taken against the culprits," he added.
Stating that the exams should be cancelled, he said: "The future of thousands of students cannot be played with. The NTA (National Testing Agency) is a fraud... This NTA should be thrown into the Bay of Bengal."
"We have paid the price of one nation, one test... If you want to make one nation, one election, you can't even hold one test," Jha said, mocking the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre.
He said Pradhan will have to resign.
"There will be resignations, exams will be cancelled, because it is easy to manage Parliament, but they cannot manage the streets. What happened to the farm laws? They had to be withdrawn. They had bypassed Parliament, but they had to eventually be brought back because of the response in the streets," said the RJD leader.
He stated that the same thing will be repeated because "this NEET corruption is also related to the elections. The elections have been done with the money earned from this."
Jha also alleged that the culprits behind the paper leaks are being protected.
"A horror story is being told about a guest house, of which there is no evidence. There is one Sanjiv Mukhiya, who was also the mastermind of BPSC exam rigging...Who is Sanjiv Mukhiya? You don't need science spatial know. His wife is a leader of the Janata Dal (United). Why is there an attempt to protect them?
Jha also named Amit Anand, showed some photographs of a Haryana school owner with the state chief minister and alleged that the school was involved in the fraud.
"For 17 months, when (RJD leader) Tejashwi Yadav was deputy chief minister (of Bihar), no question papers were leaked, five lakh people got jobs and the process to recruit 3.5 lakh people was started," he said .
The RJD leader also alleged a "Bihar-Gujarat" connection in the document leaks.
The NTA has been in the eye of the storm for alleged document leaks and subsequent cancellation of the UGC-NET exam and postponement of the NEET-PG exam.
The Center on Saturday removed NTA Director General Subodh Kumar Singh and put him on "mandatory hold" until further orders.
On Sunday, the CBI took over the probe into alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam, NEET-UG, following a reference from the Union Education Ministry.
