CPI MP Asks Modi to Protect NEET Protesters and Withdraw Cases

Overview

• CPI Rajya Sabha leader P. Sandosh Kumar wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday requesting protection for students who took part in nationwide protests over NEET exam leaks and asking that all cases against protesters be withdrawn.
• Kumar described the student movement as driven by repeated paper leaks, failures in the examination system and the suicides of about twenty students, and said the protests helped prompt the resignation of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
• The letter cites videos and reports that, according to Kumar, show right-wing groups surrounding and intimidating protesters at Connaught Place in New Delhi and RSS workers visiting protesters’ homes to pressure their parents; those specific incidents are reported as his allegations and lack independent verification in the coverage.
• No official response from the central government or law-enforcement agencies is reported in the articles, and any withdrawal of cases would require action by police and prosecutors at state or central levels and political agreement between parties.
• The dispute raises broader political stakes because it frames the treatment of young protesters as a test of democratic dissent and contrasts the government’s social-media outreach to Gen Z with accusations that political allies are using intimidation to silence students.