NTA Should Be Dissolved: 22 Lakh Students, 4 Deaths, and a Minister Who Won't Resign

NTA Leaked the Exam. The Minister Is Still in Office. We Demand Both Go.

"NTA leaked the exam. The minister is still in office. We demand both go."

NEET UG 2026 — the single national exam that determines whether 22 lakh young people can become doctors — was cancelled on May 12, 2026, after question papers leaked before the May 3 exam. At least four student deaths have been linked to the cancellation. A re-exam is scheduled for June 21. The National Testing Agency has offered a fee refund as its apology. The education minister who oversaw this failure still holds office.

This page documents what happened, who is responsible, what has been demanded, and why the CJP is calling the refund exactly what it is: the government's apology, measured in rupees, for years of preparation they destroyed.

The Timeline: May 3 to June 21

• May 3, 2026: NEET UG 2026 held across 551 cities and 14 centres abroad. Physics questions already circulating on messaging apps before the exam begins.
• May 12, 2026: NTA officially cancels NEET UG 2026. CBI probe ordered.
• May 22, 2026: CBI arrests Manisha Sanjay Havaldar, an NTA-appointed Physics subject expert, for leaking Physics questions. Eleven people arrested across multiple cities.
• May 22, 2026: NTA opens fee refund portal — deadline May 27, 11:50 PM.
• May 23, 2026: CJP website blocked under IT Act Section 69A.
• May 24, 2026: Rahul Gandhi publicly demands Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the leak.
• June 21, 2026: Re-exam scheduled. Free for all cancelled-exam candidates.

The Human Cost: 22 Lakh Students, 4 Deaths Documented

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Approximately 22 lakh (22.79 lakh registered) students were affected by the cancellation. At least four student deaths have been documented in connection with the NEET UG 2026 exam and its cancellation:

• Pradeep Meghwal, 22, Sikar, Rajasthan: Expected to score 650 out of 720. His family had taken a loan of ₹8–11 lakh to fund his education. Died by suicide after the cancellation was announced.
• Ritik Mishra, 21, Lakhimpur Kheri, UP: On his third attempt at NEET. Died by suicide following the cancellation.
• A 17-year-old from South Goa and a 20-year-old from Delhi — both unnamed in reports — also died by suicide following the cancellation.

These are not statistics. They are the outcome of placing the entire weight of a medical career on a single exam and then allowing insiders to sell it.

For the full breakdown of what these students lost and why the refund misses the point entirely, read: NEET 2026 Cancelled: The Refund Is an Insult to 22 Lakh Students.

The Demands: NTA Dissolution and Pradhan's Resignation

NTA Dissolution — Supreme Court Petitions

Multiple legal petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court of India demanding the dissolution of NTA:

• FAIMA (Federation of All India Medical Association) moved the Supreme Court demanding NTA's dissolution over its failure to conduct a fair exam. FAIMA's petition argues that NTA's structural failures make it unfit to continue.
• UDF filed a petition calling the failure "systemic and catastrophic" and seeking structural reforms including NTA dissolution.

CJP supports both petitions. The body that appointed Manisha Havaldar — the NTA-designated expert under CBI arrest for leaking the paper — cannot be trusted to conduct the re-exam. Dissolution is not a demand for revenge; it is a demand for structural change that prevents the same failure from happening again.

Dharmendra Pradhan Must Resign

The demand for Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation has come from multiple quarters simultaneously:

• Rahul Gandhi — Leader of the Opposition — publicly demanded Pradhan's resignation on May 24, 2026.
• Karnataka Minister Eshwar Khandre stated on May 21, 2026: "Dharmendra Pradhan should resign."
• CJP's petition — which gathered 6 lakh signatures before the CJP website was blocked — demanded Pradhan's resignation and has been cited by Daily Pioneer and The Federal.

As of May 24, 2026, Dharmendra Pradhan has not resigned and remains in office.

The NEET Re-Exam Fee Refund: ₹1,700 Is Their Apology

NTA opened a fee refund portal on May 22, 2026 with a five-day window — deadline May 27, 11:50 PM. The refund covers only the exam registration fee that students originally paid. General category students get back what they paid; NRI students get back the NRI application fee.

To be clear about what this means: the fee refund is a refund of the NEET registration fee — the government's apology for cancelling the exam it allowed to be leaked. It does not touch coaching costs, preparation years, or the psychological toll of the cancellation. CJP is not selling anything at this price. We are naming what the government is offering at this price: their formal acknowledgement that the exam was cancelled, measured in the rupees they originally charged to enter.

Students must visit neet.nta.nic.in before May 27 with their IFSC code, bank account number, and bank name to claim even this.

The CJP Connection: Petition, Press Coverage, and Censorship

CJP's petition demanding Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation went viral, reaching 6 lakh (600,000) signatures. The petition was covered by:

• Daily Pioneer — reported on the CJP petition explicitly as a demand for Pradhan's resignation
• The Federal — covered "Cockroach Janta Party seeks Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over NEET UG row"

On May 23, 2026 — one day after NTA's refund portal opened — the CJP website was blocked under IT Act Section 69A. The sequence is straightforward: petition crosses 6 lakh signatures, gets picked up by national press, government blocks the site. CJP's position is that the censorship confirms what the signatures already said — they noticed, and they were scared.

This community site, cockroachjantaparty.buzz, was not blocked. The movement is still here. The demand is still the same.

Read the full crackdown story: Same Government, Same Week: NEET Paper Leaked, CJP Website Blocked.