Overview
- Tamil Nadu filed an original suit on November 15 challenging the President's decision to withhold assent to its 2021 bill that seeks a NEET exemption.
- The Governor's Secretariat conveyed the withholding on March 4, 2025, following a communication from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
- The State asks the Court to declare the withholding unconstitutional, deem the bill assented under Article 254(2), or direct the Union to place the bill before the President again.
- The bill proposes admissions to undergraduate medical courses based on Class XII marks with a scientific normalization system instead of NEET.
- Tamil Nadu cites the Justice A. K. Rajan Committee's 80,000-plus responses indicating NEET disadvantages rural, poorer, Tamil-medium and government-school students, and states a hearing is likely within a week as per the Supreme Court registry.