Protests in Tamil Nadu after Dalit girl who took NEET fight to SC kills self

Chennai, September 2 : Political parties and pro-Tamil outfits on Saturday staged state-wide protests over the suicide of a 17-year-old girl who had moved the Supreme Court against NEET- based medical examinations.
They sought immediate withdrawal of the entrance exam.
Anitha’s father before her last rites said: “Anitha managed to study in difficult circumstances. She was concerned about NEET. What wrong had she done, who will answer.”  The CPI(M) and its student and youth affiliates, SFI and DYFI, staged a road blockade here over the suicide of the Dalit girl. The party’s state unit secretary G Ramakrishnan and many others were detained, the police said.
Similarly, VCK party workers were held when they staged a road blockade at Kilpauk here. A students’ outfit tried to picket the government Multi- Super Speciality Hospital at Omanthurar Estate on the main road and its members were detained. The protestors raised slogans against the central and state governments on the issue of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).