Jairam 'PM Modi ignored student protests in paper leak message'

The Congress on Friday said the “desperate and hassled-looking” Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally broke his silence on paper leaks with a video message and claimed that his lack of commitment to accountability is evident from his failure to even mention the student protests or the brutality unleashed on them.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said whatever eyewash the PM proposes, the first steps towards any resolution are clear: “Sack Mantri Pradhan; punish those who beat them; apologise.”

“The desperate and hassled-looking Pradhan Mantri finally broke his two-month-long silence late last



night through a video message to speak on paper leaks,” Ramesh said on X.

Remember that the Modi government has long denied that the NEET-UG 2026 examination paper was leaked, he said.

“The Mantri Pradhan deliberately refused to use the word ‘leak’ in his press conference, and the Education Ministry officially denied that a paper leak occurred before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education,” he said, referring to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

It is only the outpouring of public anger over the last two months that has made the PM accept the truth, Ramesh said.