India, July 27 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday rejected the opposition's allegations of multiple paper leaks in the state, asserting that not a single competitive examination paper has leaked during the AAP government's four-and-a-half-year tenure.

His remarks came after the BJP and other opposition parties accused the Punjab government of presiding over "many paper leaks" and demanded the resignation of education minister Harjot Singh Bains.

The controversy comes in the backdrop of former Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation following a month-long student protest led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). Citing Pradhan's resignation as an example of accountability, the BJP questioned why the AAP lead...