‘Mantri Pradhan’s Ministry of Scandals’: Congress flags CBSE answer sheets ‘data breach’

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File photograph  of elder  Congress person  Jairam Ramesh.

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The Congress connected Sunday (May 31, 2026) flagged that the answer sheets of 2 cardinal CBSE Grade 12 students person been shown to beryllium disposable successful the public domain and said it is simply a “data breach of monumental proportions” which compromises the privateness of the students.

Congress person Jairam Ramesh said the incompetence and callousness of COEMPT is erstwhile again exposed.

“In today's developments connected Mantri Pradhan's Ministry of Scandals, the answer sheets of 2 cardinal CBSE Grade 12 students person been shown to beryllium disposable successful the nationalist domain,” Mr. Ramesh said connected X.

“This is simply a information breach of monumental proportions and it compromises the privateness of 2 cardinal students,” helium said.

The incompetence and callousness of COEMPT is erstwhile again exposed, Mr. Ramesh said, adding that this the precise aforesaid institution which the CBSE gave the declaration to aft fiddling with the method specifications successful the RFP, apt to payment COEMPT.

“The reply sheets that person emerged besides carnivore folds and driblet shadows — which are associated with scans made via mobile phones alternatively than scanning machines,” Mr. Ramesh said.

“We cognize that the 3rd RFP dropped the specification for a robotic scanner. The question past is what benignant of scanners did COEMPT yet use? Why are the scans of specified mediocre quality?” the Congress person said.

Mr*. Ramesh tagged a station connected X which claimed that CBSE radical didn't configure their AWS bucket decently and present “we tin paginate and enumerate each their media which has 2026 answersheets and question papers”.

The Congress connected Saturday (May 30, 2026) alleged an “astonishing premix of incompetence, corruption, and callousness” marked the CBSE's readying and implementation of the Class 12 Board exams, reiterating its request for Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation and a afloat CBI probe into the "emerging scandal".

Ramesh had flagged 2 investigations — 1 by CBSE Class 12 pupil Sarthak Sidhant and different by a paper — and said they had raised caller questions implicit the CBSE's intent and preparedness successful introducing the On-Screen Marking System (OSM) for the Class 12 Board exam.

Congress person Rahul Gandhi had connected Friday (May 29, 2026) said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's soundlessness connected the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister showed helium cared lone astir the endurance of his authorities and not the aboriginal of lakhs of students.

Published - May 31, 2026 03:06 p.m. IST

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