NTA has become ‘national corruption agency’: Cong

Days after two persons accused of manipulating marks of NEET for money were granted bail, the Congress on Wednesday said the role of National Testing Agency (NTA) officials should also be probed as the agency has turned into a “national corruption agency”.
Party leader and AICC in-charge of National Student Organisation of India (NSUI), Kanhaiya Kumar, said when the CBI says that no NTA official is involved in this case, why action has been taken under the Anti-Corruption Act.
There has been no response from the CBI or the NTA on the questions raised by the Congress, he said.
On June 23, a Mumbai court granted bail to two persons arrested for allegedly trying to manipulate marks of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
The CBI arrested Sandeep Shah and Salim Patel on June 10 for allegedly deceiving NEET-UG 2025 aspirants and their families by claiming they could manipulate scores, charging Rs 90 lakh per candidate for this purpose.
“Once again questions have been raised on the transparency of NEET and the agency (NTA) which conducts the test. We are not raising these questions. The questions have risen from the CBI’s FIR. The CBI registered an FIR in Maharashtra, in which two arrests were made under the Anti-Corruption Act,” Kumar said at a press conference along with NSUI president Varun Chaudhary.
“The CBI is saying that no NTA official is involved in this case. If so, why action was taken under the Anti-Corruption Act,” Kumar asked.
“When three people are absconding, how did two people get bail? Is it possible that such a big scam happens in the exam without the connivance of any official,” Kumar questioned.
“On one hand, the prime minister discusses ‘exams’, but on the other hand, there is hardly any exam in the country on which questions have not been raised. The government’s priority is only to make reels,” Kumar alleged.
NSUI president Chaudhary alleged, “The National Testing Agency has become the ‘National Corruption Agency’. Whenever NEET is held, new things come to the fore. Whichever exam the NTA conducts, its data gets leaked.”
“The CBI registered an FIR, in which some people have also been arrested. In this FIR, it has come to light that the OMR sheet of the exam was changed for money. We are raising the exam scam in NEET because through this test, the aspirants become doctors, who are the foundation of the country’s health system,” Chaudhary said.
“Now the NTA is again under suspicion. Till now, no major investigation has been launched against the agency, hence our demand is that NTA officials should be investigated because the agency has now become the ‘national corruption agency’,” he added.