New Delhi, July 28: NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) MP Supriya Sule on Tuesday demanded that the proposed Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill be referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), saying the legislation contains "internal contradictions" and requires wider consultation.

Participating in the Lok Sabha debate on the Bill, Sule urged the Centre to convene an all-party meeting and involve all stakeholders in drafting a stronger law to curb examination paper leaks.

"If the government is serious about saving the system, it should form a JPC, consult all stakeholders and come up with a leak-proof law. The present Bill has several internal contradictions," she said.

Sule also sought a comprehensive inquiry into examination-related irregularities across the country, saying students from "Kashmir to Kanyakumari" had suffered due to repeated paper leak incidents.

Expressing disappointment over disruptions in Parliament during the debate, she said she had hoped the House would send a united message on the issue, similar to the collective response following the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor. She stressed that the concerns of students deserved sensitive consideration.

Taking a swipe at the ruling BJP, Sule said the party should not assume that young voters were firmly behind it. "The next generation is neither with them nor with us. We will know where the youth stand in the 2029 elections," she remarked.

Joining the debate, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra strongly criticised the government over its handling of protests against the NEET-UG paper leak. She questioned who had authorised the use of pellet guns against protesting students in Delhi and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah should answer.

She also referred to the reported use of an AK-47 rifle during protests in Bihar, asking whether the students were being treated like terrorists.

"What was the need to use pellet guns and AK-47s against the country's youth? Who gave such orders? The Prime Minister and the Home Minister must answer," Priyanka said.

The Siwan district administration in Bihar later clarified that the use of an AK-47 during the protest was unauthorised and inappropriate for crowd control, adding that the constable involved had been suspended.

Priyanka further alleged that the government had weakened the education system through excessive centralisation and by creating the National Testing Agency (NTA). She claimed there had been 152 paper leak incidents over the past decade, affecting millions of students, while alleging that no member of the paper leak mafia had been brought to justice.

She also accused the government of reducing the share of education in the national budget and undermining employment-generating sectors.

Earlier in the day, Union Minister Jitendra Singh moved the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha for consideration and passage.