Shashi Tharoor urges PM Modi to cancel upcoming Class 12 Board Exams 2021

Shashi Tharoor has written a letter to PM Modi, asking him to cancel the Class 12 board exams due to the Covid-19 crisis in the nation.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to intervene in the decision of the central government to conduct the Class 12 board exams in the middle of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In his letter to PM Modi, Shashi Tharoor cited several reasons for the cancellation of the board exams, such as the increasing number of Covid-19 cases across the country and the physical and mental well-being of the students during the pandemic. His letter further reads, “Many of these students have had to contend with their own family members contracting the coronavirus and, in some truly unfortunate cases, even succumbing to the virus.” He said that it would be unfair to ask these students to prepare for exams in a matter of weeks.