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Published – August 18, 2026 03:24 am IST – New Delhi<\/p>\n
CPI General Secretary D. Raja (left) and CPI (ML) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya (right). File.
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The Left parties on Monday (August 17, 2026) renewed their demand for scrapping the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, after the NTA announced a retest for three papers of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination following complaints of errors in the question papers.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the CPI(M) Polit Bureau said that the errors in the English, Commerce and Sociology papers highlighted the \u201centrenched rot\u201d in the education system and exposed the NTA\u2019s \u201cabject incompetence\u201d in conducting examinations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) reiterates its demand to scrap both the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the NEP 2020 \u2013 the root cause of the decay in the education system,\u201d the party said.<\/p>\n