Karnataka Assembly passes resolutions against NEET, One election & delimitation based on fresh census data

The State Assembly on Thursday passed resolutions opposing the NEET, one-nation-one-election, and delimitation of assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies based on the data from a new census.

The Assembly agreed with the Statet's stand that NEET selection went against the interests of the state's rural students and called for selection of candidates for MBBS seats in the state based on the State's own CET ranking.

Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil moved the resolution urging the Centre to revert to the earlier system of selecting students for MBBS seats based on the State's entrance test.


The NEET examination system severely affects the medical education opportunities of poor rural students and deprives the rights of the state governments to admit students in the state government medical colleges. Considering the repeated irregularities in the NEET examination, the Centre should make necessary amendments in the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 so that the NEET system is dropped at the national level, the resolution said.

As for one-nation-one-election, the resolution said the proposed move was a threat to India's democratic and federal setup. The BJP, however, opposed the resolution.

State legislatures have their own terms of office and a uniform election schedule would undermine the states' autonomy by focusing too much on national issues, and ignoring local concerns, the resolution said while expressing serious concerns arising out of simultaneous elections.

Opposition leader R Ashoka, however, said the idea behind the one-nation-one-election was to save on election costs and ensure seamless development which suffers due to multiple model codes of conduct, he said.
Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil moved the resolution urging the Centre to revert to the earlier system of selecting students for MBBS seats based on the State's entrance test.

The State opposed delimitation of constituencies based on the census data gathered in 2026 or later. The Centre must go by the 1971 census data while deciding the number of Assembly and Lok Sabha seats for Karnataka, the resolution said.