Kejriwal demands sacking of Dharmendra Pradhan over CBSE row

Arvind Kejriwal demanded the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, blaming him for CBSE evaluation irregularities and student distress. He cited technical glitches in the revaluation portal and linked the issue to broader concerns over NEET and exam management

New Delhi: Calling Dharmendra Pradhan “incompetent and useless”, AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Monday asserted that lakhs of children across the country can not be traumatised because of the Union Education Minister.

Kejriwal demanded Pradhan’s immediate resignation over the alleged irregularities in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) evaluation system.

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“The massive irregularities in CBSE evaluation have plunged the future of lakhs of children into darkness. After this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should immediately terminate education minister Dharmendra Pradhan,” Kejriwal said in a video message on X in Hindi. “First NEET and now CBSE. Pradhan does not deserve to be the education minister for even a day,” he added.

Kejriwal emphasised that many students in classes 10 and 12 are under immense stress, with their parents also feeling overwhelmed. “Children have demanded revaluation; the revaluation fee should be reduced, so that it can be a manual and speedy revaluation, so that they can secure admissions into colleges promptly,” Kejriwal added.

He shared an instance where a friend informed him that the online portal was malfunctioning, with the scanning features appearing completely blurred. “The children of our country cannot be subjected to trauma because of an incompetent and useless education minister. The least Modi can do is immediately sack the education minister,” Kejriwal said. The education ministry on Sunday said that the CBSE will engage experts from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and IIT-Kanpur to address technical challenges in its post-result services portal.