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Intensifying its onslaught connected the Narendra Modi authorities implicit the contention surrounding the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, the Congress connected Monday (June 1, 2026) demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, saying helium “epitomised arrogance and incompetence”.
The Opposition party’s disapproval came aft the CBSE acknowledged that determination was a occupation successful the system, which made students’ information public.
The Congress alleged specified systemic nonaccomplishment had jeopardised the aboriginal and intelligence well-being of lakhs of students.
Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi accused the authorities of “financialising” acquisition and criticised the outgo imposed connected students seeking correction of alleged valuation errors.
Sharing a video of his enactment with students, Mr. Gandhi said the load of rectifying mistakes made by the strategy had been unfairly placed connected them.
“Beware of pickpockets — today, they are sitting close wrong the CBSE,” helium said successful a station connected X. “The mistake belongs to the CBSE. The punishment falls connected the student. The nett goes to the government.”
Pointing to charges levied during re-evaluation — ₹100 per taxable for scanned copies, ₹100 for re-totalling and ₹25 per question for re-evaluation — Mr Gandhi claimed that students could walk up to ₹2,000 simply to guarantee close marking.
“When acquisition is turned from a work into a business, mistakes aren’t corrected. They’re multiplied. And our children are paying the steepest terms for it – with their time, their self-confidence, and their future,” Mr. Gandhi said.
Contract norms
In a abstracted X post, Congress wide caput Jairam Ramesh claimed that aft “denying the cybersecurity vulnerabilities” successful the OSM strategy for weeks, the CBSE had yet acknowledged that the strategy had been compromised.
Mr. Ramesh alleged that tender norms were altered to favour contractor COEMPT and questioned wherefore the Board had removed provisions allowing blacklisting of non-performing vendors.
“This is an inexplicable, government-backed effort to prevention COEMPT, and it began adjacent earlier COEMPT got the declaration officially,” Mr. Ramesh said connected X.
Taking a swipe astatine the Education Minister, the Congress connection main said, “Mantri Pradhan is the precise epitome of arrogance and incompetence,” and urged him to “follow his rajdharma and resign”.
Addressing a property conference, Congress media and publicity section caput Pawan Khera accused the BJP authorities of weakening India’s acquisition institutions done “12 years of blatant misrule and relentless propaganda”.
“While PM Modi continued connected a idiosyncratic PR spree with ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’ and ‘Exam Warriors’, crores of young students and their parents endure daily,” helium alleged.
Flaws successful system
Posing a bid of questions to the Prime Minister, Mr. Khera asked wherefore the CBSE had “ignored” warnings from teachers and experts astir 36 large flaws successful the integer valuation strategy and wherefore the OSM strategy was imposed connected 18.5 lakh students wrong weeks.
Mr. Khera questioned the government’s cognition to the aboriginal of the students. “Is it due to the fact that you request an service of uneducated and unemployed youth, who volition stay illiterate and jobless, and you tin marque them bash immoderate you privation them to do?” helium asked, adding, “What is your enmity with the GenZ?”
