The over a month-long protests by students, led by the Cockroach Janta Party in the wake of the NEET examination paper leak, compelled Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign. The momentum built by the students’ protests must not be lost — it must lead to larger and more meaningful changes in the education system, and re-energise structures of accountability and reform. And in that process, people’s representatives on both sides of the aisle must step up to the challenge — because Parliament has a crucial role to play. Some readings of the street protests by students have painted them as antagonistic to democratically elected people’s representatives and constitutionally mandated institutions. Now Parliament must take on the hard and patient work of redesigning, correcting and finetuning educational structures and processes.