The Chandrababu government claims Mega DSC-2025 was conducted with complete transparency. If that is true, why did it avoid a comprehensive debate in the Legislative Council? Chandrababu Naidu and Education Minister Nara Lokesh made elaborate PowerPoint presentations in an Assembly where the principal Opposition was absent. But when YSRCP MLCs were present in the Council and ready to question them, the government failed to give a complete explanation on DSC.
YSRCP has 32 members in the Council against TDP’s 10. When YSRCP insisted on a DSC debate on August 18, the House was adjourned within 27 minutes. The issue continued to rock the Council, but no comprehensive ministerial response was placed on record. Lokesh has previously intervened even on departments handled by other ministers. If he could answer on other departments, why did he avoid a full discussion on DSC, which comes directly under his ministry?
One-Sided Batting in the Assembly
Lokesh cited 3.36 lakh candidates, 5.77 lakh applications, 16,347 posts, 154 examination centres, 89 sessions and 42,000 questions to defend DSC. But these figures do not answer the controversy.
The real questions are: Who controlled question preparation, uploading and examination conduct? Why were the SCERT question-setting system and DSC examination machinery brought under the same administrative control? How did an outsourced SCERT employee secure Rank 1 in Krishna district? Why did Naveen’s name appear in the first merit list and disappear from the revised list? When and why was his login blocked? What proof exists that he was actually sent a certificate-verification call letter?
These questions require digital access logs, system records and official orders, not verbal assurances. The government should release the complete digital audit trail.
421 Sports Posts, 372 Appointments Without Exam
The government itself confirmed that 421 Sports Quota teacher posts were processed without the regular written examination and 372 candidates were selected under G.O. Nos. 4 and 47. Lokesh gave a community-wise breakup—46 OCs, 185 BCs, 112 SCs and 29 STs. But social-category statistics do not answer questions about sporting merit.
Which sport did each candidate represent? At what level? Did they win medals or merely participate? Which association issued each certificate? Who verified it? Why were national-level medallists reportedly denied selection? Unless candidate-wise eligibility and verification records are disclosed, declaring the process transparent is not enough.
Lokesh also acknowledged that a case was registered and one person arrested over an audio recording involving money demands for Sports Quota certificates and teacher posts. That itself establishes the need for deeper scrutiny. Did the arrested person have links with sports associations, SAAP officials or DSC personnel? Did any candidate referred to in those conversations get selected? Did money change hands? Were there other intermediaries? The government must publish the investigation status, money trail, call records and links, if any, with final selections.
Group-I Cannot be an Escape route
As scrutiny over DSC intensified, the government shifted focus to Group-I. If there were irregularities in Group-I, investigate them. But a Group-I probe does not answer DSC questions. Y.S. Jagan has challenged Chandrababu and Lokesh to order CBI investigations into both Group-I and DSC-2025, declaring YSRCP ready to face both. If the government is confident about DSC, why not accept that challenge?
The government must release the complete records and agree to an independent probe. Why hesitate to say in the Council what was said in the Assembly? Why resist an investigation? Why are the full records still being withheld?
