Chennai, July 23 -- Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president MK Stalin on Thursday said that NEET had failed to fulfil its three principal promises of reducing students' burden, eliminating commercialisation and improving standards, and called for its abolition.

In a post on X, Stalin said that NEET had merely shifted the centre of learning from schools to coaching centres.

"The problem with NEET has always been structural, not merely procedural. Recent events have vindicated that concern," he said.

Stalin said the ongoing student protests should serve as a "wake-up call" for the Union Government and urged it to "trust the states" and abolish NEET.

Earlier on Wednesday, Stalin backed the protestin...