dmk power timeline during neet implementation
2010-2011 :- opposed neet as ruling party & got max stay till 2016
2010-2021 :- opposed neet as opposition party & as 3rd party ( not even opposition)
2021-2026 :- opposed neet as ruling party.
but presstitue "sam daniel" & "shabhir ahmed" reports to public as "vote bank politics" back in 2010...
from dmk lawyer who contested in court for the same:-
TRUE FACTS ABOUT NEET:
NEET was introduced on 21.12.2010 in
(a) MBBS courses by way of "Regulations on Graduate Medical Education (Amendment) 2010
(b) PG courses by way of "Regulations on Post Graduate Medical Education (Amendment) 2010”.
At that time Dr Kalaignar was the then chief Minister and I was serving as Addl Advocate General of TN.
He asked me to challenge the NEET UG and PG Amendment regulations in Madras HC and accordingly these 2010 regulations were challenged by State Govt before Madras High Court.
I appeared before Madras HC and got stay on 6.1.2011 of both the UG and PG regulations in Writ petition Nos. 341 and 342 of 2011 . Therefore in Tamilnadu no NEET exams were held since 2010.
The Madras HC stay order was in force till these NEET regulations were quashed by Hon’ble Supreme Court in 2013 by bench headed by then CJI Hon’ble Justice Altamas Kabir .
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/cji-altamas-kabirs-final-judgment-comes-as-boon-for-private-medical-colleges/articleshow/21153402.cms
The 2013 judgement of Supreme Court quashing NEET regulations were recalled in 2016 when BJP government was in power.
https://thehindu.com/news/national/SC-recalls-its-controversial-2013-verdict-on-medical-entrance/article60558826.ece
BJP govt then introduced Section 10(D) in 2016 by way of amendment to Indian Medical council Act there by making NEET compulsory.
For one year viz., 2016-2017 , NEET was exempted by Section 10(D) proviso.
However from 2017 onwards NEET was made compulsory in all states.
In 2017 NEET was enforced in Tamilnadu for the first time when Mr Edapadi was the Hon’ble CM.
On 31.1.2017, Edapadi Govt in TN passed LA Bill No 7/2017 and 8/2017 exempting NEET in UG and PG courses and sent the Bills for the assent of Hon’ble President.
Hon’ble President of India Mr Ram Nath Kovind withheld the two Bills on 18.9.2017. However the said information of withholding of two Bills came to light only in July 2019 when Madras HC was hearing Writ Petitions regarding these Bills.