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Snapshot of the day
June 2, 2026
Sidharth Bhatia
Activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk has said he will join Abhijit Dipke of the Cockroach Janta Party in his Jantar Mantar protest planned for June 6 if union minister Dharmendra Pradhan does not resign by then as pressure mounts on the Modi government. Although many who are looking to join the demonstration may have the CBSE’s on-screen marking problems and the latest NEET paper leak in mind, Wangchuk said he has a larger, overarching reason for attending: the state of Indian education. The Indian government’s intention is ‘10/10’, he said, but the implementation of its policies on the ground are certainly not and warrant the minister’s resignation.
The last time Wangchuk knocked on Delhi’s gates with an entourage of protesters he was detained at the Haryana border itself; later, denied permission to carry out a fast at Jantar Mantar, he proceeded at Ladakh Bhavan in Chanakyapuri ( he was later jailed for half a year under the draconian National Security Act as the Modi government blamed him for the deadly Leh protests of September 2025).
In the hot seat over the vulnerabilities and discrepancies over the CBSE’s on-screen marking system as well as the manner in which it awarded the tender for the process, the Modi government today reportedly transferred the board’s chairperson Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta from their posts. It also set up a one-member committee comprising retired IAS officer S. Radha Chauhan to probe the CBSE’s enlisting of the Coempt Edu Teck firm to run its on-screen marking portal, which is to submit its findings in a month’s time. Earlier 17-year-old Sarthak Sidhant of Ranchi had alleged that the CBSE ‘systematically rewrote its rulebook’ to facilitate Coempt to win the tender, and today he appeared before the parliamentary standing committee on education, women, children, youth and sports to present his findings.
A key parliamentary committee may recommend scrapping the traditional pen-and-paper examination system in favour of computer-based testing, as the fallout from the NEET-UG paper leak continues to put pressure all the way up to the Prime Minister’s office (PMO). “The PM is so miffed with the failures of Dharmendra Pradhan, that he has taken up all the responsibilities himself. Hence, it is their responsibility, we hope that it will be addressed… Now we are hoping that under the PM, paper leak would not happen,” committee chairperson and Congress Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh said after a meeting, Deccan Herald reports. [See Drawn and Quartered]
While the national attention remained fixed on the Pahalgam attack, the subsequent military operation, US President Donald Trump’s provocations, the BJP’s electoral gains in Delhi and Bihar, and the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR), in 2025, India’s state legislatures quietly passed more than
