No Retreat: Rahul Gandhi rejects CBSE’s fact check, “Doubles Down on Coempt Allegations”

Rahul Gandhi Challenge Coempt (PTI Image)

28th May 2026: CBSE dismissed the claims of Rahul Gandhi over the Coempt Edu Teck contract, saying all procedures regarding the examination were properly followed by the agency.  The political irregularities over the CBSE’s new digital evaluation intensified on Wednesday. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi sharply reacted to the board’s clarification on the ongoing On Screen Marking (ONM) controversy.

Gandhi accused the board and the central government that they failed to answer his 4 simple questions reported by Hindustan Times on Wednesday. The Central Board of Secondary Education rejected all the allegations raised regarding the digital evaluation process. 

“A denial is not an answer. Why are the Education Minister and CBSE unable to answer the four simple questions I have asked? The future of 18.5 lakh students have been put in jeopardy. They deserve the truth”, Gandhi said in a post on X on Wednesday.  

CBSE countered the arguments as misleading and not based on facts. CBSE claims that it has followed the General Financial Rules protocols scrupulously in the awarding of the contract to the agency reported by Times of India on Wednesday. 

The digital evaluation of Answer books for Board exams 2026 on Central Public Procurement portal on 28.08.2025 and awarded the contract to the qualified bidder, the board added as its response to Gandhi’s remarks on X. 

Rahul Gandhi has demanded a judicial inquiry and special investigation into what he described as a “massive tampering” of CBSE board examination results.