The Congress on Monday (August 17, 2026) attacked the government after the National Testing Agency announced the retest for three papers of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination, asking whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will say anything about his own responsibility.
“Our question is: Why should the country’s students bear the punishment for NTA’s mistakes? Does it really take nearly two months to detect such serious errors? Mr.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh, said that nearly two months after the UGC NET June 2026 exam, the NTA itself admitted that the question papers for English, Commerce and Sociology contained factual, typographical and translation errors. Now, the exams for these three subjects will be held again on September 9 and 10, the Congress leader pointed out.
“Names of prominent scholars were misspelled, book titles were garbled, there were errors in the language of the questions, mistakes in grammatical and gender-number agreement, punctuation errors, and non-standard terms were used for established concepts,” Ramesh said in his post in Hindi on X. Not only that, the NTA’s committee found that a large number of such questions were repeated — ones that had already been asked in previous exams, he said. Ramesh said.
“Why should candidates pay the price for mistakes in the examination system? These questions aren’t just for the thousands of students in these three subjects. “Will the Prime Minister, who chides the country’s youth from the ramparts of the Red Fort, say anything about his own responsibility? The youth of the country demands answers,” Mr.
The government must explain why the results for thousands of candidates who have already taken the exams in 84 other subjects are delayed,” he said.
Ramesh said.
