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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Sunday (May 31, 2026) targeted the Centre implicit the CBSE OSM row, sharing a video of his enactment with a radical of students and describing them arsenic brave young Indians who asked the Modi authorities elemental questions but received "insults alternatively of answers".
Asserting that the students deserved a agleam future, Mr. Gandhi said, "We volition marque definite they get it".
Posting the clip connected his societal media accounts, Mr. Gandhi described it arsenic a "revealing chat with my chap 'anti-national Soros agents'."
"Vedant and his friends are brilliant, brave young Indians who asked CBSE and the Modi authorities elemental questions — but got insults alternatively of answers," Mr. Gandhi said successful his station connected X, accompanying the video.
"They merit a agleam and unafraid future. We volition marque definite they get it," helium added.
Vedant, a Class 12 student, had precocious alleged successful a station connected X that the Physics reply expanse uploaded by the CBSE nether the revaluation process was not his. It went viral, aft which respective different students took to societal media with akin claims.
In the video, Mr. Gandhi is seen having an informal chat with Vedant and different students astir their ordeal. He besides joked astir however they were labelled "Pakistanis" and "deep authorities agents" aft raising what helium called morganatic concerns and issues.
"You are students. You are asking for your reply sheets, that's all. Now, suddenly, you person go anti-nationals. You person to judge the occupation if you person to lick the problem. You are refusing to judge the occupation and blaming the mediocre kids and saying 'you are heavy state, you are spies, terrorists'," Mr. Gandhi says successful the video, attacking the authorities implicit the On-Screen Marking (OSM) controversy.
"Were you besides called terrorists? Tell me!" Mr. Gandhi asks Vedant, his member and immoderate different students successful the 90-second clip, seemingly portion of a larger interaction.
During the interaction, Mr. Gandhi besides laughingly tells the cameraperson: "Bhaiyya, amusement the faces of these 'terrorists'!" Several CBSE Class 12 students had flagged mix-up cases aft accessing scanned copies uploaded connected the portal and uncovering that the reply sheets did not beryllium to them.
CBSE aboriginal reached retired to them and shared their close reply sheets. The committee said that it had taken up connected "top priority" the cases related to alleged mismatched reply sheets and different concerns faced by students successful the revaluation process.
Experts from IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur, on with Digital Infrastructure Corporation of India (DICI), are examining the strategy and strengthening the portal and outgo gateway integration, according to authorities sources.
Coempt, the institution that did the OSM for the CBSE exam, has travel nether onslaught from Gandhi, who alleged that the steadfast was already mired successful contention nether its aged name, Globarena.
The person of the Opposition successful Lok Sabha has demanded an autarkic judicial probe, arsenic good arsenic an SIT enquiry to unearth the information down the "entire scam", and asked wherefore a steadfast that had a murky past successful Telangana handed the declaration to the board.
