This week in Parliament, we saw a hotly contested debate between the Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Modi. A significant part of each address focused on partisan political issues. PM Modi hardly spent any time responding to the extremely serious NEET exam scandal, which has emerged as an episodic trigger for the enormous breach of trust caused by the irreparable harm in the Modi government’s social and political contract with its citizenry, particularly the aspiring youth.