Deoria MP Shashank Mani Tripathi on the 2026 NEET crisis, India's growth story and entrepreneurship

The 2026 NEET crisis, triggered by a paper leak that affected close to 22 lakh medical entrance aspirants and compounded by irregularities in CBSE's on-screen marking system, set off weeks of protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar and eventually cost the country's education minister his job. In a wide-ranging conversation with Shradha Sharma, Founder and CEO of YourStory and The Bharat Project, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Deoria and Jagriti Yatra founder Shashank Mani Tripathi argued that the epis