Gaurav Gogoi, Congress MP and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, launched a fierce and direct attack on the central government during the Monsoon session of Parliament on the anti-paper leak Bill. Calling the proposals merely eyewash and a showpiece bill, Gogoi questioned the government’s genuine desire to remake the country’s beleaguered education system. In spite of the fact that the Public Examinations Prevention of Unfair Means Act 2024 had been passed by the Government, the question paper leaks are still plaguing the country and shattering the academic dreams of millions of young aspirants.
VIDEO | Delhi: Parliament Monsoon Session: "Government is not serious, Bill is just an eyewash," says Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi during debate on the anti-paper leak Bill in Lok Sabha.
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To put the issue of accountability in the spotlight, the senior Congress leader asked why the Chairman of the National Testing Agency was shielded and kept in office despite huge national controversies and poor results on major examinations like NEET-UG and UGC-NET. He compared that with the removal of other lower-level officials, asking why the government chose to replace the Director General of the NTA but leave the Chairman untouched. Gogoi said such selective accountability shows the administration is unwilling to tackle the root causes of systemic corruption and administrative incompetence in the country's premier testing bodies.
Gogoi also passionately defended millions of students who marched on the streets of India to protest widespread examination irregularities and paper leaks in his heated speech in the Lower House. Such protests were not mere acts of defiance, but rather were backed by families who saw their children’s futures at stake by the failure of the system; families were happy to send their kids up front and to protest with their hands raised so that the public’s view on this was not to be dismissed, but to protest for their own jobs. The heated debate between the opposition benches and the treasury side was also very much political and the government’s overall stance on exam controversies was seen as a matter for great debate, and the effectiveness of the current policies and procedures were to be closely monitored.
