AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday, 19 July 2026, launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over fresh reports of irregularities in the re-NEET examination, asking how a government that cannot conduct a single exam properly can claim to run the country.

In a post on X, Kejriwal wrote: 'Re-NEET exam ke natajon mein bhi ab bhari gadbadi samne aa rahi hai. Bechare bachche jayen to jayen kahan?' — translated: 'Massive irregularities are now surfacing in the re-NEET exam results too. Where are these poor children supposed to go?' He directly addressed the Prime Minister: 'Mr Modi, if you cannot conduct even one exam properly, how will you run the country? In 12 years, you have destroyed the nation.'

Context

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is the sole national entrance examination for undergraduate medical admissions — MBBS and BDS courses — across India. It was made the single mandatory gateway in 2016 following a Supreme Court order that replaced multiple state-level tests. The exam is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), an autonomous body established in 2017 under the Ministry of Education.

A re-examination was ordered after widespread allegations of paper leaks and result anomalies surfaced in the original NEET-UG cycle. Kejriwal's post signals that, in his assessment, the re-examination has now produced its own set of irregularities — compounding the crisis for medical aspirants.

Policy Backdrop

The NTA has faced sustained scrutiny over its handling of high-stakes national examinations. Opposition parties have repeatedly framed successive exam controversies as evidence of systemic governance failure in the education sector. Petitions challenging the conduct of NEET have been heard at the Supreme Court of India, and demands for a structural overhaul of the NTA have grown louder across political and civil-society circles.

Kejriwal's reference to '12 years' places the accountability squarely on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government, which has been in power since May 2014. The AAP has consistently positioned itself as a champion of education reform, pointing to its own school-improvement record in Delhi as a contrast to what it calls central neglect.

Stakeholders and Impact

The primary victims of repeated examination failures are medical aspirants, many of them from underprivileged and middle-class families who invest years of preparation and significant financial resources in a single high-pressure test. Each cycle of irregularities delays admissions, disrupts academic calendars, and erodes confidence in the examination system.

Beyond individual students, the credibility of India's centralised medical admissions architecture is at stake. Coaching institutes, universities, and state governments that surrendered their own entrance processes to NEET now find themselves without an alternative mechanism should the national exam continue to falter.

What's Next

Pending Supreme Court hearings on NEET-related petitions will be closely watched for any directions on result validity, compensation for affected candidates, or interim relief. Pressure is also building on the government to announce concrete reforms to the NTA's governance structure before the next examination cycle begins.

With the Parliament session providing a platform for opposition questions, the NEET controversy is likely to intensify as a flashpoint between the ruling coalition and parties like AAP, which have made education accountability a central electoral and legislative theme.