LUCKNOW, June 20 -- A day ahead of the NEET-2026 re-examination, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Ajay Rai on Saturday demanded the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, citing alleged paper leaks and suicides among medical aspirants.

Addressing a press conference, Rai alleged that several national and state-level examinations had witnessed paper leaks or irregularities over the past 12 years. He claimed that apart from NEET examinations in 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2026, the AIPMT (now NEET) examination in 2015 and multiple other recruitment and entrance tests were also affected by anomalies.

"I pray that God helps them conduct the re-NEET on June 21, though a dozen lives have been lost due to su...