New Delhi, May 16 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday slammed the central government over the death by suicide of NEET UG aspirants after the examination was rescheduled following a paper leak, stating that "Amrit Kaal is proving to be a Mrit Kaal" and demanded that Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign.

In a post on X, the Congress president reflected on the potential hopes and aspirations of the students who ended their lives over shock from the NEET paper leak and accused the "corrupt and incompetent " Modi government of trampling their dreams.

Kharge noted that more than 90 paper leaks have happened in the BJP government, affecting over nine crore students and their families. Alleging that the BJP prote...