Sonia Gandhi condemns PM Modi’s silence on NEET documents leak

Congress Parliamentary Party president and Rajya Sabha MP Sonia Gandhi has criticised the central government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over various issues, including the NEET-UG newspaper leak and ethnic violence in Manipur. She accused the prime minister of “valorising confrontation” despite his public advocacy of the “value of consensus”.

In an op-ed in The Hindu, Gandhi claimed that Narendra Modi’s third term was not the result of the electoral process, citing a lack of evidence to support the claim. “The prime minister is carrying on as if nothing has changed. He preaches the value of consensus but continues to value confrontation,” she said.

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“There is no evidence that the prime minister accepted the election result or thought about the message the voters sent him,” the CPP chairman wrote.

The Rajya Sabha MP further criticised the Centre for its frequent confrontations and heated exchanges over the Deputy Speaker’s post and the NEET issue during the first session of Parliament after the 2024 general elections. She also questioned Prime Minister Modi’s silence on the NEET paper leak case. The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha began on June 24 and the Rajya Sabha session began on June 27.

“The first days of the 18th Lok Sabha were unfortunately far from encouraging. Any hope of a change in attitude was dashed. This perfectly reasonable demand was found unacceptable by a regime which had not filled the constitutional vacancy as Vice President in the 17th Lok Sabha,” she added.

“The Prime Minister who is doing his ‘Pariksha pe Charcha’ has remained conspicuously silent on the leaks which have devastated so many families across the country,” she said.