In Gujarat Bhargav Patel, 17, son of a farmer from a small village in Aravalli district, burnt the midnight oil to score 92 per cent in State board exam. He aspired to get into a government medical college. But the boy scored only 292 out of 700 in NEET, pushing his rank in the Gujarat-NEET merit list down to 3,881.

Just like Anitha, the 17-yr-old Dalit girl from Tamil Nadu who committed suicide over poor NEET score, there are hundreds of bright Gujarati-medium students like Bhargav Patels from rural areas who are forced to let go of their MBBS dreams as they cannot afford NEET coaching.

He also had the option of securing a seat in a medical college in Bhuj for Rs 17 lakh, but it was too expensive for the farmer's family. “Had the State followed the old model of medical admissions on the basis of board exam marks and GUJCET score, I would have been studying in a medical college.

But my NEET score ruined my prospects. I will not only lose out on a year, but will have to move to Ahmedabad and spend Rs 1.20 lakh on coaching for next year's NEET,“ he said.

It is important to note earlier CBSE stated in open court that chances of question paper leak was higher for regional language papers.

Earlier when the matter came up in Gujarat court during June 2017 over NEET 2017 - CBSE’s defence of different question paper sets leaves Gujarat court furious .

Justifying its stand on framing different sets of question papers for English and other languages, the CBSE in an affidavit filed before the division bench of Chief Justice R. Subhash Reddy and Justice V. M. Pancholi said it was done to make it easier for it to conduct the test again in case there was leak of regional language question papers.

It stated in the affidavit that almost 90% students appeared for the test in English, and only 8-10% candidates took the test in other regional languages.

In case there was a leak in vernacular language papers, it would be easy for them to conduct examinations again as only 8-10% candidates would be affected while a majority of students who appeared for English medium test would remain unaffected.

All this boils up the situation and like Tamil Nadu Gujarat also witnessing anti NEET protests that ruling party fear would affect its chances in forthcoming assembly elections in Gujarat.