Chennai, July 23 -- Observing that NEET has failed on all the three principal promises on which it was introduced, OppositionDMK President MK Stalin on Thursday said the ongoing student protests must serve as a wake up call for the union Government andthe time has come for it to trust the states and abolish the exams.

He said NEET has merely shifted the centre of learning from schools to coaching centres and the problem with it has always been structural not merely procedural and that recent events have vindicated that concern.

In a post on X, tagging on to his article written in an English daily, he said "NEET was introduced with three principal promises--reduce the burden, eliminate commercialisation, and improve standards.""On every on...