India, July 22 -- Tamil Nadu chief minister Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) on Tuesday stated its demand for scrapping the NEET, saying the exam should be abolished altogether.

The party also demanded greater powers for states over medical education, insisting that education should be shifted from the Concurrent List to the State List of the Constitution. The statement came amid student protests over the NEET exam in Delhi and renewed political debate over the entrance examination.

TVK said its "uncompromising and firm stand" was that the national-level entrance test for medical aspirants should be scrapped altogether.

Calling for structural reforms in the education sector, the party said states should have full authority over m...