AIADMK MLAs A. Anbalagan, A. Baskar and Vaiyapuri Manikandan along with a large number of party cadre were arrested after they attempted to picket the Legislative Assembly to protest against the “failure of the Congress” to ensure justice to students in admissions to private medical colleges in Puducherry.
Addressing the protesters in front of the head post office, Mr. Anbalagan alleged that Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy was indulging in double speak and was supporting the plans and programmes of its ally, the DMK without doing justice to the student community in Puducherry.
Attacking the Congress government for having let down the students, Mr. Anbalagan said that in the next six months Puducherry would witness a change of guard. He pointed out that the government had not taken any to bring in a law to procure 50% of seats for students of Puducherry under the government quota in private colleges.
‘Not enough seats’
There was no firm step on the part of the government to get exemption for Puducherry students from the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET). Of the 1,050 seats in private medical colleges students from Puducherry should have got 525 seats under the government quota. But only 165 seats had been procured this year.
Only 36% of seats have been procured this year under the government quota, he added.
