Participating in the debate on the Anti-Paper Leak Bill, Subba Reddy extended the YSRCP’s support to the proposed legislation but argued that it should not be confined to examinations conducted by the UPSC, SSC and National Testing Agency (NTA). “Just as the Union Education Minister resigned by accepting moral responsibility, Andhra Pradesh education minister Nara Lokesh should also step down over the DSC scam,” he demanded. He also alleged that coaching-centre mafias were playing a major role in examination paper leaks and called for stringent action against them. Raising broader concerns over education policy, Subba Reddy said students studying under the CBSE syllabus enjoy a competitive advantage in NEET compared to those following State syllabi. He further alleged that while the previous YSRCP government established government medical colleges to make medical education affordable for poor students, the present NDA coalition government is moving towards privatisation, making medical education increasingly inaccessible to economically weaker sections.