Kerala Opposition Leader Pinarayi Vijayan targets PM Modi over NEET irregularities; hits out at Centre for police crackdown on student protests in New Delhi

Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan addresses students outside Kerala Lok Bhavan as he inaugurates a protest march taken out by the Students Federation of India demanding education system reforms and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over question paper leak incidents, in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday (July 23, 2026).

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Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan has alleged that the NEET-UG examination is being undermined by “large-scale fraud, deception and criminality,” which affected more than 25 lakh students.While demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, he added that Prime Minister Narendra Modi could not evade responsibility for the alleged irregularities.Inaugurating a ‘Charter of Rights’ march taken out by the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) to Kerala Lok Bhavan on Thursday (July 23, 2026), organised in solidarity with the youth protest spearheaded by the Cockroach Janata Party in New Delhi, Mr. Vijayan said the students who had worked hard for the examination were being cheated through organised malpractice.

A protest march taken out by the Students Federation of India outside Kerala Lok Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday (July 23, 2026), demanding education system reforms and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over question paper leak incidents.