New Delhi, Jul 28 (PTI) BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Tuesday said that repeated paper leaks across the country showed the need for a stronger legal framework, while also taking a swipe at the opposition for not passing a similar Bill in 2010.
“Priyanka ji asked why there have been no convictions. The reason is that there was no special law. In 2010, you introduced it, but did not pass it. This time, we are passing it,” Surya said while participating in a debate on the Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill 2026 in the Lok Sabha.
He said that in the 75-year history of independent India, there had been “numerous paper leaks”, and claimed that more than 200 such incidents had taken place across central and state government examinations in the last 20 years.
“You can prepare a full list of who was in power when each leak happened, but will that solve the problem?” he asked.
Surya said the absence of a special law had been one of the reasons why convictions were not happening in paper leak cases.
“In 70 years, this is the first time a special law to criminalise this act was passed in 2024 and is being strengthened now in 2026,” he said.
He further said the recurring failures in the examination system were only a symptom of a deeper problem in the education system.
He said many students ask why the education system had reached such a state, and argued that merely fixing the exam system would be like “fixing the bug” while ignoring the “source code”.
“Fixing the exam system is only fixing the bug. Fixing the education system is actually fixing the source code,” he said, adding that what was needed was “root-and-branch reform” of the education system.
Surya on Monday took a swipe at Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over the state of the education system, asking whose “legacy” it was, and said the country continued to follow the old model because no new education policy had been brought for decades.
He said the existing system had produced “clutter” and failed to encourage original thinking.
“Today, a big question is being raised in the country: Why is India not building great product companies? Why is India not producing original research? Why are Indian universities not in the top 100?” Surya said.
He argued that the education system promoted rote learning, memorisation and exam-oriented cramming rather than creativity and innovation. PTI SID SID MNK MNK
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