One officer set the paper and ran the hall. Jagan wants the CBI.

Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy wants the CBI on the Mega DSC, and he wants Nara Lokesh out of the education ministry. This is not the Group-I story. Group-I is the 2018 APPSC file, the resort, the altered OMRs. This is the school-teacher recruitment — the Mega DSC — and a press meet on Thursday in which the YSRCP chief put papers on the table.

His first charge is structural. Setting a question paper, he said, belongs to the SCERT director. Running the examination belongs to the DSC convenor. Those two locks exist so that the person who writes the key does not also hold the hall. Lokesh, Jagan said, put both locks in one official’s hand, admitted it, and asked what the problem was. The problem is the lock. A CBI, he said, should find out why the split was erased.

His second charge has a name. An outsourcing employee, Naveen, worked in the question-bank wing and then took the first rank. The government, Jagan said, has now accepted that this happened. A man with access to the bank topping the test is the leak in plain sight. When that fact threatened to explode, he alleged, the first merit list was pulled and a second list was issued without Naveen. Father and son, he said, then had officers tell the Assembly and a court that Naveen simply failed to appear for certificate verification. Jagan’s counter: the candidate’s ID was blocked and no call letter went. A man who is not called cannot “fail to appear.” Naveen, he said, has put that on affidavit in the High Court.

He also said YSRCP MLCs stalled the Legislative Council for four days to force a debate on the leakages and got none. The party, he said, is being denied recognition as the principal opposition so that it cannot raise this file. The image he used was a cricket match with no bowling and no fielding — father and son batting, then announcing a victory. Self-goals, he called the government’s counters, while it refuses the one inquiry that would not be its own.

The demand is therefore two sentences. Send the Mega DSC to the CBI. Lokesh should resign and take moral responsibility. Those sentences are a political attack. They are also a description of a recruitment in which paper-setting and conduct were merged and a question-bank staffer was, on the government’s own later admission, first on the list.

A CBI is not a verdict. A resignation is not proof. A blocked ID and a vanished first rank are, if the affidavit holds, documents. Andhra already has one exam-integrity war on the Assembly floor over Group-I. It now has a second over the DSC. Collapsing them into one “paper leak” headline is how both files escape. Jagan has asked for a central investigation on this one, and for the education minister to go. Naidu’s government has not, on Thursday’s public record, accepted either. The MLCs will keep standing up. The two locks remain in the same hand until someone takes one back.