"Relax, Celebrate": Priyanka Gandhi's Message To Students After Class 12 CBSE Boards Cancelled

Priyanka Gandhi CBSE boards: The Congress leader, cheering for students, told them to "relax and celebrate" as the Centre announced the cancellation of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations for class 12, Tuesday.

"Congratulations, students of class 12 for making your voices heard. After all the uncertainty and stress, you deserve to relax and celebrate today! All the best for a happy, healthy and bright future ahead," she

Congratulations, students of class 12 for making your voices heard. After all the uncertainty and stress, you deserve to relax and celebrate today!
All the best for a happy, healthy and bright future ahead.#cbseboardexams

Congratulations, students of class 12 for making your voices heard. After all the uncertainty and stress, you deserve to relax and celebrate today!
All the best for a happy, healthy and bright future ahead.#cbseboardexams

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) June 1, 2021

The Congress leader, along with other opposition leaders like Arvind Kejriwal, had been persistent in their appeal to the centre for cancelling board exams for class 12 as had been done for class 10 students across India. A back and forth had been on between protesting students, the government and other politicians for weeks over the necessity of conducting final examinations during a raging pandemic. More details here.

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Gandhi, only a day prior to the cancellation announcement, Gandhi said she had written to Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' with a concise summary of the concerns students, schools and parents had raised with regard to CBSE board exams during the pandemic.

"It is cruel and heartless to expect these children not only to study and perform well in the board exams, but even more so to subject themselves to crowded exam centres at which there is no guarantee for their health and safety," she wrote.

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I have written to the Minister of Education summarising numerous suggestions I received from students, parents and teachers regarding the 12th standard CBSE exams. Their voice must be heard. pic.twitter.com/NIj4Jly0Hv

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) May 31, 2021

"They have been in this state of limbo for months now, struggling to cope with disease, deaths of people around them and circumstances that would have been unimaginable for any of us just two years ago. It is unfair to prolong this decision any further and to cause them even more stress when it is entirely avoidable," she

I have written to the Minister of Education summarising numerous suggestions I received from students, parents and teachers regarding the 12th standard CBSE exams. Their voice must be heard. pic.twitter.com/NIj4Jly0Hv

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announcing the centre's decision, said it was "student-friendly" and came about after "extensive consultations." Details of cancellation here.