{"id":27086,"date":"2026-06-26T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/did-pm-spare-a-thought-rahul-gandhi-on-modis-birthday-wish-to-dharmendra-pradhan-cites-neet-linked-student-deaths-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:07:59","slug":"did-pm-spare-a-thought-rahul-gandhi-on-modis-birthday-wish-to-dharmendra-pradhan-cites-neet-linked-student-deaths-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/did-pm-spare-a-thought-rahul-gandhi-on-modis-birthday-wish-to-dharmendra-pradhan-cites-neet-linked-student-deaths-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Did PM spare a thought?&#8217;: Rahul Gandhi on Modi&#8217;s birthday wish to Dharmendra Pradhan, cites NEET-linked student deaths | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132017421,imgsize-70590,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/congress-mp-rahul-gandhi.jpg\" alt=\"'Did PM spare a thought?': Rahul Gandhi on Modi's birthday wish to Dharmendra Pradhan, cites NEET-linked student deaths\" title=\"Rahul Gandhi\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/commendable-efforts-pm-modi-wishes-birthday-to-dharmendra-pradhan-gets-community-note-on-x\/articleshow\/132012693.cms\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">birthday message<\/a> for Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan by asking whether the prime minister had &#8220;spared a thought&#8221; for aspirants whose deaths by suicide were linked to the NEET-UG paper leak.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>&#8220;Each name on this list was a child with a dream, a family, a future \u2014 all destroyed by a broken system and a government that refuses to learn or take accountability. Remember these students. Every one of them,&#8221; the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha wrote on X while responding to a post by fellow Congress leader Pawan Khera, who shared the names of 14 such aspirants.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>&#8220;When PM Modi praised Dharmendra Pradhan ji on his birthday, did he even spare a thought for these children?&#8221; Rahul Gandhi added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>The Rae Bareli MP has repeatedly targeted the Centre over the NEET-UG paper leak and related issues.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>His remarks came after PM Modi wished Pradhan on his 57th birthday, praising his &#8220;commendable efforts&#8221; in implementing the National Education Policy.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>&#8220;Birthday wishes to Union Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Ji. He is making commendable efforts towards the implementation of the National Education Policy, which seeks to make India a hub for knowledge, learning and innovation. Praying for his long and healthy life,&#8221; Modi wrote on X.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Student groups and opposition parties have been demanding Pradhan&#8217;s resignation, or that he be removed from the Union Cabinet, over the NEET-UG paper leak fiasco.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Over 22 lakh students appeared for the medical entrance examination on May 3. However, the exam was cancelled on May 12.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>The NEET-UG re-exam was held on June 21. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/did-pm-spare-a-thought-rahul-gandhi-on-modis-birthday-wish-to-dharmendra-pradhan-cites-neet-linked-student-deaths\/articleshow\/132017348.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s birthday message for Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan by asking whether the prime minister had &#8220;spared a thought&#8221; for aspirants whose deaths by suicide were linked to the NEET-UG paper leak.&#8220;Each name on this list was a child with a dream, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}