Hailing from a poor family Arunkumar cleared the Joint Entrance Exam and got admission in the B.Tech-Chemical Engineering course at Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad.

He studied in a government school near Tiruchirapalli and cracked the entrance exam in his first attempt.

Incidentally, all the political parties, including the ruling DMK are opposed to the common entrance exam for medical college admission.

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