New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday (March 29) demanded the sacking of human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar and Anita Karwal, the chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), over the leak of class X mathematics and class XII economics paper.
“Without removing Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar and CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal from their current positions, a fair and impartial investigation into this paper leak issue is impossible,” ANI quoted Randeep Surjewala, Congress spokesperson, as saying.
On Wednesday, the CBSE announced that students who wrote the class X mathematics and class XII economics papers will have to re-take the exam as the question paper was leaked on WhatsApp prior to the examination. Around 28 lakh students across the country have been impacted by the decision.
Attacking the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre, Surjewala said in a statement: “Modi government has done a PhD in ruining institutions. First, they nurtured the ‘Vyapam Virus’ in Madhya Pradesh, then they spread the same patented virus throughout the country in the multi-layered SSC scam and now they have not even spared our students. Encouraging ‘exam mafia’ has become the bedrock of BJP’s policies.”
The Congress also suggested that other papers could have been leaked. “It may just turn out to be the tip of the iceberg as multiple news reports and social media stories on how the Biology, Chemistry and English papers have also been leaked are also surfacing now,” the statement said.
Students, meanwhile, took to the streets in Delhi against the CBSE and have demanded that the matter be probed and the guilty brought to book.
The CBSE has filed a complaint with the Delhi police, which is now probing the matter. The CBSE is expected to announce the date for re-exam later this week.