Manipur, April 9 -- Earlier, over one lakh students of classes 10 and 12 signed petitions urging the CBSE, and government to either cancel the board exams or conduct them in online mode.

Even as the demands for postponement of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board exams continue to grow lowder, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Friday held the CBSE "downright irresponsible" for holding exams amid COVID-19 spike.

"It is downright irresponsible of boards like the CBSE to force students to sit for exams under the prevailing circumstances. Board exams should either be cancelled, rescheduled or arranged in a manner that does not require the physical presence of children at crowded exam centres," Priyanka Gandhi tweeted.

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