Leader of opposition, Rahul Gandhi, recently met Vedant Shrivastava, the class 12 student who gained widespread attention after he posted on social media about receiving the wrong answer sheet under CBSE’s new marking system.
The conversation touched on the criticism the student and his brother faced after they made the complaint on social media.
Gandhi shared a video of the meeting on X with the caption, “A revealing chat with my fellow 'anti-national Soros agents.” Vedant and his friends are brilliant, brave young Indians who asked CBSE and the Modi government simple questions - but got insults instead of answers. They deserve a bright and secure future. We will make sure they get it.”
In the clip, CBSE student Vedant tells Gandhi that he was called a Pakistani agent for sharing that he got the wrong answer sheet from CBSE.
They laughed at being called “Soros agents.” George Soros, a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist, is often accused of funding a left-wing agenda by Hindutva right-wingers.
Gandhi then asked the students, "Were you also called ‘terrorists’? Tell me!" Vedant's elder brother Siddhant Shrivastava responds with a smile: “Yes, yes!”
He also goes on to explain how the public called them “deep state agents” who are trying to create unrest in India.
Gandhi then laughs and says, “Seventeen-year-old ‘deep state agents’! Show their faces... Come on, show the faces of these ‘terrorists’!”
Vedant Shrivastava became the centre of the controversy surrounding CBSE’s first tie use of the On-screen marking system. His post gained millions of views on X.
He and his brother posted about how he received the wrong answer sheet from CBSE when they asked for a reevaluation.
After the post went viral and garnered media attention, the board responded and sent him the correct answer book to his email.
Several X users, including a TV anchor called Vedant and his brother “Pakistani”, and the incident was a plot to destabilise the Modi government.
