Stalin asked whether AIADMK would seek NEET exemptions as a prerequisite for its alliance with the BJP.

Chief Minister MK Stalin asked on Monday whether opposition leader Edappadi K Palaniswami would tell BJP that the BJP’s scrapping of NEET is a prerequisite for continuing in the NDA. Stalin’s attack on Palaniswami at the convention comes after opposition leaders criticized the DMK-Congress regime for introducing NEET in the state. “Now you have the right opportunity to solve this problem,” Stalin said. He said whether AIADMK would say it can remain in the BJP-led NDA only when the current NEET examination system is cancelled.

“If it didn’t do that, would it say it would catch the connection? That’s the problem.”

Palaniswami said the DMK assured people that it will abolish NEET before the 2021 poll, and that AIADMK worked to stop the test, which was initiated on the Centre’s Congress DMK regime.
The LOP, which alleges Neet’s Supreme Court decision, wants to know if it can be violated and asserts that only the Supreme Court can review its ruling.

The chief minister said the DMK did assure people that NEET was cancelled in the state.

He said: “We don’t deny this. We will be sure that our promise is to occupy our coalition (Indian Group) in the center. Now you have formed a coalition; whether you will propose that the rider (end NEET in Tamil Nadu) continue the coalition is a question.” Palaniswami, the top leader of AIADMK, said in his speech that when the DMK formed an alliance with the Congress party, his party was not wrong with being consistent with the BJP, which was accused of being in jail for an emergency (1975-77). Also, he wanted to know who he had allied with in 1999.

Transport Minister SS Sivasankar said AIADMK and BJP reached a “deal” on NEET, so during the AIADMK regime, the Tamil Nadu Centre approved 11 medical schools to allow NEET.

The fierce debate on the NEET involving the ruling bench and the main opposition party took place in the House debate by AIADMK’s Govindasamy, through participation in the demand for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2025-26.

Speaking in a reporter outside the House, Palaniswami reiterated that the national medical test was introduced by the DMK and that the AIADMK took all the steps to stop it.

Palaniswami said his party could be consistent with any party, and the chief minister questioned the chief minister with the BJP coalition that he was afraid of regime change, a victory for the AIADMK-led coalition in the 2026 General Assembly polls.

Tamil Nadu has an annual enrollment capacity of 11,700 MBBS seats, including 5,050 seats, with 4,453 graduate seats in the Government Medical School, of which 2,294 are in the Government Medical School.