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Congress main whip successful the Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh connected Monday (May 18, 2026) moved a privilege announcement against Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for his “derogatory” remarks that Mr. Ramesh allegedly lowered the dignity of Parliament.
In his notice, Mr. Ramesh cited the Union Minister’s remarks made astatine a property league connected May 15 wherever helium reportedly, portion responding to a question connected wherefore the authorities did not instrumentality the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Education connected the National Testing Agency (NTA), said, “I volition not remark connected Parliamentary Standing Committee reddish flags. I volition talk astir the High-Level Committee of Experts (HLCE)/Radhakrishnan Committee. The Parliament Standing Committee has members from the Opposition. They constitute things successful a definite manner; you besides cognize that. Hence, I won’t talk connected the lasting committee.”
Mr. Ramesh said these “derogatory” comments uncover the Minister’s “contempt for Parliament”.
“He has made these outrageous remarks portion presiding implicit the rot successful the Education Ministry that is destroying the aboriginal of lakhs of younker crossed the country,” Mr. Ramesh said successful a station connected X.
The Congress person said the parliamentary committees were an hold of the Parliament and were rightly referred to arsenic mini-Parliament. “They [comments] are highly derogatory and question to malign parliamentarians, parliamentary committees and the Parliament of India,” helium said. He besides underlined that members of a parliamentary lasting committee were drawn from each governmental parties.
“The Minister’s impugned comments intelligibly bespeak and uncover his contempt for the Parliament, parliamentary committees, members of the parliamentary committee that are drawn from each governmental parties and India’s law ideology itself,” the erstwhile Union Minister said.
Mr. Ramesh said Mr. Pradhan had “deliberately lowered the stature and prestige of the instauration of the lasting committee simply due to the fact that of its bipartisan nature”.
“The Minister’s comments are besides tantamount to imputing dishonourable motives to members of parliamentary committees themselves,” helium said.
Mr. Ramesh said it was good established that immoderate derogatory references to parliamentary committees oregon members of parliamentary committees represent a “gross contempt” of specified parliamentary committees.
