Hyderabad, May 17 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson NV Subhash on Sunday hit back at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi after the Leader of Opposition termed the death of a NEET aspirant in Uttar Pradesh following the alleged paper leak, a "murder" by the Modi government, saying Gandhi should refrain from making such statements as a responsible opposition leader.

"Especially Rahul Gandhi, being a responsible opposition leader, should not give these kinds of statements where the person who had hanged himself, is a murder, putting the blame entirely on the Modi government on that," Subhash told ANI.

The BJP leader further defended the NEET system introduced after 2014, claiming that it had increased transparency in medical admissions and...