'Rahul Gandhi Spreading Panic': Govt Sources On Allotment Of Abu Dhabi Centre To NEET Candidate

Published 20 June 2026 · education

'Rahul Gandhi Spreading Panic': Govt Sources On Allotment Of Abu Dhabi Centre To NEET Candidate Published By, Last Updated: June 20, 2026, 20:56 IST Sources

'Rahul Gandhi Spreading Panic': Govt Sources On Allotment Of Abu Dhabi Centre To NEET Candidate Published By, Last Updated: June 20, 2026, 20:56 IST Sources accused Rahul Gandhi of spreading panic among NEET aspirants without waiting to verify facts amid a row over a Nagpur candidate being allotted a centre in Abu Dhabi. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (Image: PTI/File) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi rushed to spread panic among lakhs of NEET aspirants without waiting to verify facts, government sources told CNN-News18 after the Leader of the Opposition weighed in on the controversy surrounding a NEET re-test candidate from Nagpur being allotted an examination centre in Nagpur. Rahul Gandhi slammed the Testing Agency (NTA) over the Abu Dhabi centre controversy and accused it of extorting “an entire generation’s money, time and mental peace" “No passport, no money in the family to send him abroad, and no time left now.

He cried all night and is refusing to take the exam—what kind of stress is this? Can you even imagine? How did this even happen?" he said on X. “The NTA is actually just testing the patience of the country’s children and their parents. A system that can’t provide a centre in a child’s own city but can send them abroad instead – it has no right to conduct exams," he added. नागपुर का एक बच्चा एक महीने से NEET re-exam की तैयारी कर रहा था।कल परीक्षा से ठीक एक दिन पहले उसने admit card डाउनलोड किया। उसका सेंटर निकला – अबू धाबी। न पासपोर्ट, न परिवार के पास विदेश भेजने के पैसे, न अब कोई वक़्त बचा है। वो रातभर रोता रहा, और परीक्षा देने से ही मना कर रहा… — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 20, 2026 The row emerged after a NEET-UG aspirant from Nagpur, identified as Abdullah Mohammad Talib, found that the admit card for the June 21 re-test listed an exam centre in Abu Dhabi, UAE, creating confusion within the family.

Govt Sources Clarify On NEET Centre Row However, government sources accused Gandhi of spreading panic among aspirants barely 48 hours before the NEET-UG re-examination, saying the NTA’s records indicated that the Abu Dhabi option was selected through the candidate’s own registered login, with a consistent single-user access pattern. The examination city was changed to Abu Dhabi once and previewed twice using the candidate’s credentials, sources told CNN-News18. Despite the situation, an informal request was received on June 19, after which NTA officials acted immediately, contacted the candidate’s father and initiated the process to shift the centre to Nagpur. Meanwhile, the NTA responded to the family’s complaint, saying that corrective action was being taken. “The grievance is being addressed and the candidate will be allocated a centre in Nagpur, after due verification, in the next few hours," the NTA said in a statement posted online. The incident comes amid heightened scrutiny of the NEET-UG examination process following a major paper leak controversy.