The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday adopted the bill against the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) to admit students to undergraduate programmes in medicine. A special assembly session was convened for the purpose during which the bill was adopted by voice vote. All the political parties, except the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supported the bill.
This is the second time that the Tamil Nadu Assembly has adopted the anti-NEET bill. It was previously passed in September last year to scrap the entrance exam and enable admissions to MBBS and BDS based on Class 12 marks.
The bill will now be sent to the Governor RN Ravi for the second time. He had returned it on February 1, asking the state legislature to reconsider it.
