Removal of Dharmendra Pradhan: The CBSE re-evaluation row got louder on Monday, May 25, 2026, after the Aam Aadmi Party attacked Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and asked for his removal. AAP said the board exam process had broken down badly and used the phrase “system collapse” while pointing to blank answer sheets, wrong marking, portal crashes and high re-evaluation fees. The party also put out a graphic with the line “Sack Dharmendra Pradhan Now!”
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The criticism came as the ministry was already dealing with fresh complaints from students and parents. On May 24, the Education Ministry said Pradhan had asked IIT experts to help CBSE fix technical problems in the post-result re-evaluation process, after reports of login trouble, payment failures and server issues. CBSE has also extended the deadline for Class 12 students to ask for scanned copies of answer sheets until midnight on May 25, 2026.
Kejriwal Joins the Attack
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also jumped in through a video message on AAP’s X account. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should remove Dharmendra Pradhan from the Education Ministry. Kejriwal linked the CBSE row with the earlier NEET trouble too and said many Class 12 students and parents were under heavy stress because of re-evaluation trouble, broken access to the portal and delay in results work.
He also listed the demands of students in simple terms. They wanted manual re-evaluation of answer sheets, a waiver of re-evaluation fees, an end to the OSM process and faster completion of the whole exercise so college admissions are not delayed. Kejriwal said the portal had been hard to use for days and that students were struggling to log in, while scanned sheets were blurry and difficult to check properly.
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Rahul Gandhi also Attacks the Centre
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also hit out at the Centre on May 25. In his post on X, he said the “Modi-Shah duo” had turned another institution into a symbol of rigging. He also said complaints about OSM, wrong marking and evaluation glitches had not been answered for days. In the same row, he referred to a 17-year-old student who had raised concerns online about a wrongly checked answer sheet and said the student was later attacked on social media instead of being helped.
The wider row began when students and parents started sharing complaints about mismatched answer sheets, trouble opening scanned copies and errors during re-evaluation. Some students also said the fee system had behaved strangely, with reports claiming the amount jumped from ₹1 to ₹69,420 because of a payment glitch.
