'JEE (Mains) 2020 must be conducted in all regional languages'

Kolkata: Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress MP and president of the party's youth wing demanded to frame of questions in the regional languages for 2020 Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) mains examination.

Banerjee on his Twitter handle observed that it is unconstitutional to set the question papers only in English, Hindi and Gujarati respectively. The notification of JEE 2020 states that candidates will have to opt language of QP while filling up the online application form. For all centre cities, the language of question papers will be in English and Hindi. For the centre cities in Gujarat, Daman and Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli the language should be English, Hindi and Gujarati.

Abhishek also added: "Constitution mandates equality for all. Why only options of English, Hindi & Gujarati? JEE (Mains) 2020 must be conducted in all regional languages including Bengali, Oriya, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi. Any linguistic discrimination is unconstitutional."