including congress rahul gandhi west bengal chief minister mamata banerjee her odisha counterpart naveen patnaik dmk president m k stalin and delhi deputy chief minister manish sisodia had also demanded that the exams be postponedwith barely days left for jee exams to start the issue had escalated into a full blown political battle with ministers from rajasthan and punjab congress west bengal trinamool congress jharkhand jharkhand mukti morcha maharashtra nationalist congress party and shiv sena seeking postponement of the exams in a manner that achieved the twin objectives of ensuring that the academic year of the students is not wasted and their health and safety is not compromisedthey filed a petition in the apex court to review its order of conducting jee and neet ug 2020 entrance tests during the novel coronavirus crises however the plea was dismissed by the supreme courtthe neetug was originally scheduled for may 3 but was pushed to july 26 and then scheduled for september 13