Bengaluru: A faculty member of Mount Carmel English High School in Bengaluru was sacked after its question paper for class 8 students asked if a farmer's friend was an earthworm or Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy or BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa, an official said on Thursday.

"The faculty member responsible for setting the question paper was dismissed from the post," Raghavendra, the principal of the school in the city's southwestern suburbs, told the media here.