5 Demands to Fix NEET 2026 — CJP's Accountability Plan

SC reads NTA's affidavit. 22.79 lakh students. 4 dead. The system promises reform, accepts every committee recommendation, files perfect paperwork — and leaks again. What actually needs to happen? CJP has five demands, each backed by petitions, court filings, and public statements on the record.

The Supreme Court said it plainly on May 25, 2026: "It's sad that they have not learnt their lessons." That is the language of a court that gave NTA a second chance after the 2024 leak, watched it accept 101 reform recommendations, waited for the January 2025 implementation deadline — and then watched the paper leak again on May 3, 2026, affecting 22.79 lakh students.

Four students died by suicide following the cancellation. The CBI has made 13 arrests. The paper was allegedly sold for ₹10 lakh to ₹25 lakh per copy — to students, through middlemen who were, in some cases, NTA-appointed question-setters.

This is not a series of unfortunate events. This is a documented failure of structural accountability. Below are the five demands — each sourced, each in motion — that CJP believes must be answered before any re-exam can count as legitimate.

Demand 1: Dissolve NTA, Create NEIC Under Judicial Supervision

FAIMA — the Federation of All India Medical Association — has filed a Supreme Court petition demanding that the National Testing Agency be dissolved and replaced by a National Examination Integrity Commission (NEIC). The NEIC would be overseen by a retired Supreme Court judge, with independent audit authority and criminal liability for exam officials who compromise paper security.

The petition was filed by Advocate Tanvi Dubey, registered as WP(C) No. 651 of 2026. The Supreme Court admitted it on May 25 — meaning the bench found sufficient grounds to require NTA, the Centre, and CBI to respond. This is not a political statement; it is an active case before the court.

The cockroach system's most durable trick is institutional self-preservation: NTA investigates NTA, NTA reforms NTA, NTA runs the re-exam after NTA leaked the exam. Judicial oversight is the only break in that loop that cannot be quietly reversed by the ministry that created the agency.

"Restructure NTA or replace it."

Demand 2: Abolish NEET, Restore Class 12 + State-Based Admissions

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Thalapathy Vijay and former CM MK Stalin have demanded that NEET be abolished for medical admissions and that students be admitted based on Class 12 marks through state-level processes. This demand predates 2026 — Tamil Nadu has long argued that a single centralised exam disproportionately disadvantages state-board students — but the 2026 leak has given it fresh national urgency.

The argument is structural: NEET's single-paper format creates a single point of failure. One corrupt question-setter, one "Private Mafia" WhatsApp group, and 22.79 lakh students are sent home. A state-board-based distributed system has no such single chokepoint to bribe.

This is not merely Tamil Nadu's demand. Any system where one exam, administered by one agency, is the sole gateway to medical college for an entire country will be worth bribing at scale. The ₹25 lakh price tag on a single paper is the market's verdict on NEET's structural vulnerability.

Demand 3: Dharmendra Pradhan Must Resign

CJP launched a petition demanding the immediate resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan after the NEET-UG 2026 cancellation. The petition, backed by NSUI, Congress, and the broader student movement, has gathered 5.68 lakh signatures.

Pradhan is the minister responsible for the NTA, which operates under his ministry. In 2024, the Supreme Court forced his ministry to accept 101 reform recommendations. His ministry constituted the monitoring committee on November 14, 2024 to oversee implementation. As of May 3, 2026 — when NEET leaked for the second time — Pradhan's own statement acknowledged a "breach in the chain of command."

The accountability question is simple: either the reforms were implemented and they failed, which makes NTA structurally unfixable under his watch; or the reforms were not implemented, which means his ministry failed to do the one thing the Supreme Court ordered it to do. Either conclusion points to the same direction.

CJP's own X account was blocked by Delhi HC order — on the same day, May 29, that the SC heard NTA's affidavit. The petition page at /pradhan-bhago carries the full accountability tracker.

Demand 4: CBI-Monitored Transaction Audit of the Paper Leak Network

The CBI has arrested 13 people in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak as of May 2026. Among those arrested are individuals alleged to be NTA-appointed subject-matter experts — the very people entrusted with setting the questions.

CJP's demand: the CBI investigation must include a complete, publicly reported audit of the financial network through which the paper was sold. This means:

• Bank transaction mapping: Where did the ₹10–25 lakh per student ultimately go? How many families paid? Who are the middlemen in the chain?
• Institutional tracing: Were proceeds shared with anyone inside NTA's procurement or administration chain?
• Systemic findings: Is this network the same that operated in 2024, or has it grown? The CBI must report to the SC — not just to the ministry that oversees NTA.

Without this audit, the 2026 arrests are a performance. The network that made the leak profitable will reconstitute itself around whoever replaces those arrested. Accountability without money-trail transparency is theater.

Demand 5: SC-Supervised, NTA-Free Re-Exam on June 21

The re-exam is confirmed for June 21, 2026. The problem: it is being conducted by the same NTA. No structural change has been announced. No judicial oversight of operations has been ordered.

FAIMA's SC petition specifically asks that the June 21 re-exam be conducted under judicial supervision — not by NTA acting autonomously. NSUI and Congress have echoed this demand. CJP's position is that until the SC issues specific operational oversight directions for June 21, the re-exam cannot be treated as a credible restart.

The court may issue such directions at the May 29 hearing or later. This page will be updated. But as of May 28, the re-exam is NTA-run, monitoring-committee-less (the November 2024 committee's status is the subject of the affidavit), and unchanged in structure from the exam that leaked on May 3.

Students sitting on June 21 deserve to know: what is different? Until the SC specifies the answer, that question has no credible official response.

The CJP Analysis: Why These Five, Together

Each demand addresses a different layer of the same cockroach system:

• Demand 1 (NEIC) — structural: breaks the loop of the agency investigating itself
• Demand 2 (NEET abolition) — architectural: eliminates the single point of failure that makes large-scale bribery worth it
• Demand 3 (Pradhan resign) — political: holds the elected official in the chain of command personally accountable
• Demand 4 (CBI audit) — financial: destroys the network's profitability rather than just arresting individual nodes
• Demand 5 (SC-supervised re-exam) — immediate: prevents the same agency from administering the rerun before structural change is in place

Meeting any one of them without the others leaves the system intact. Meeting all five does not guarantee that no exam ever leaks again — but it eliminates the institutional conditions that made this leak structurally inevitable.

The swarm is watching. The number is 22.79 lakh. The count is 5.68 lakh signatures. The deadline is June 21. The case for replacing NTA entirely is covered on our /replace-nta page.

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