"This Ordinance is being brought to benefit the private medical colleges lobby at the cost of the students of India", party spokesman P C Chacko told reporters.
He said that the Union Cabinet decision to issue an ordinance to keep NEET in abeyance goes against the SC verdict on this matter.
Chacko said that under the current scenario, students have to travel across the country to sit for entrance exams and "there is no transparency".
The ordinance, cleared by the Union Cabinet this morning, is aimed at "partially" overturning a Supreme Court verdict which said all government colleges, deemed universities and private medical colleges would be covered under NEET.
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