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The Congress connected Saturday (June 6, 2026) said Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's continuation successful bureau lone speaks of his tendency for powerfulness and accused him of being "incompetent" successful moving a "compromised Ministry".
In a station connected X, Congress wide caput Jairam Ramesh stated that if the Education Ministry shown much integrity successful organising the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams, the full debacle that stressed lakhs of students crossed the state could person been avoided.
"The skeletons successful the Education Ministry's closet are tumbling retired accelerated and furious," Mr. Ramesh said successful his station portion citing media reports that COEMTP Edu Tech submitted 2 cybersecurity certificates to CBSE to fulfill the tender's cybersecurity requirements.
“It is present reported that some these certificates were tied to different clients. One of them had expired (it was astir 2 years aged erstwhile submitted by COEMPT) and the different was audited arsenic a impermanent exertion alternatively than arsenic an exertion successful a accumulation environment,” helium added.
"The CBSE, alternatively of calling retired this deception, awarded the declaration to COEMPT astatine inflated rates," the Congress person alleged. He said Gen-Z ethical hackers had exposed captious flaws successful cybersecurity each the mode backmost to February 2025, which the CBSE denied until it could nary longer bash so.
"In fact, successful a last admittance that COEMPT's portal was irretrievably compromised, the CBSE has present stopped utilizing COEMPT's level and built its ain website for the re-evaluation process," helium claimed, citing media reports.
Mr. Ramesh said if the 'Mantri' Pradhan's Ministry had shown much integrity successful organising the CBSE exams, the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, and the revaluation process, the full debacle, which has stressed lakhs of students and their families, could person been avoided.
"Mantri Pradhan's continuation successful bureau lone speaks to his shameless tendency for power. He has been wholly exposed arsenic an arrogant and incompetent hack moving a profoundly compromised Ministry," Mr. Ramesh alleged.
The Congress connected Friday (June 5, 2026) said that lone Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan tin reply arsenic to wherefore the CBSE was "made to follow an costly OSM strategy astatine inflated rates", and asserted that helium indispensable resign truthful that an autarkic probe tin instrumentality place.
Amid a enactment implicit the OSM strategy successful the Class 12 examinations, the CBSE precocious connected Friday (June 5, 2026) extended the past day for submission of applications for verification and re-evaluation of Class 12 reply sheets by 1 time till June 7.
The determination comes aft respective students flagged issues successful accessing reply books and applying for verification and re-evaluation connected the CBSE's post-result services portal launched connected June 2.
