India’s Education Minister Steps Down, Handing Win to Protesters

With Dharmendra Pradhan offering his resignation, the student protest movement achieved a major victory against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

By Anupreeta Das and Pranav Baskar

India Education Minister Pradhan Resigns After Student Protests

India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan tendered his resignation after widespread protests over exam paper leaks.

By Bhaskar Dutta

India’s education minister resigns after weeks of student protests

Dharmendra Pradhan’s departure was a key demand of the growing student movement

India's education minister resigns amid countrywide 'cockroach' protests

Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after weeks of protests that demanded his removal over alleged leaks in some of the country's most competitive entrance exams and irregularities in the education system.

India’s education minister resigns after mass protests by Cockroach movement

Dharmendra Pradhan steps down after demonstrations over exam leak scandal in major victory for youth political movement India’s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, has resigned after a week of mass demonstrations, handing a major victory to a new youth movement that has posed an unprecedented challenge to Narendra Modi’s government. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, Pradhan said he had submitted his letter of resignation to the prime minister after student pressure. Continue reading...

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

India’s youth protesters are fighting Modi with irreverent humour and memes

Modi built his political brand through social media. Now protesters are using same platforms to mock his administration.

India: Education minister resigns amid student-led protests

Dharmendra Pradhan announced he was resigning from his post amid growing protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party. DW has more.

India’s education minister quits in major win for youth protesters

India’s education minister resigned on Saturday, handing a major victory to youth protesters who had demanded he quit ‌to take responsibility for examination paper leaks, and who erupted in celebration on news of his departure. “We have done it,” said Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party that led the protests, to loud cheers at the Jantar Mantar protest site in New Delhi. India’s biggest street protests of recent years have become a political flashpoint, ⁠posing one of the...

By Reuters

Indian education minister resigns after mass protests over exam paper leaks

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday he had resigned from his post following mass protests calling for his dismissal. Public trust in India's university testing system has been undermined by a series of exam irregularities, including the leaking of a medical entrance question paper that forced more than two million candidates to re-sit the test.

By FRANCE 24

Watch: CJP's Abhijeet Dipke falls to stage after being told Pradhan has resigned

Abhijeet Dipke fell on stage after learning of Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation. He declared the resignation a victory but vowed protests would continue. Dipke demanded compensation for families and action against police officers. Pradhan accepted responsibility for the NEET paper leak controversy from the start. Meanwhile, police dismissed rumors about a ban on food delivery services.

By TOI NEWS DESK

‘Time has come to remove this government’, Rahul Gandhi says as Dharmendra Pradhan resigns amid CJP protest

Rahul Gandhi congratulated the students across the country who took to the streets "to protect democracy, the Constitution, and their future.”

Dharmendra Pradhan First Minister To Quit Because Of A Row Since MJ Akbar In 2018

Akbar had resigned as the junior minister for external affairs in 2018.

Indian education minister resigns after mass protests

Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said he had resigned, handing a major victory to youth protesters nationwide who had demanded that he quit to take responsibility for examination paper leaks.

India's education minister resigns after youth protests

India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday he had resigned from his position, handing a major victory to youth protesters nationwide who demanded that he quit to take responsibility for examination paper leaks. The minister announced his resignation on X just as police fired tear gas to scatter young protesters in Delhi, hours before their leaders were set to hold another round of talks with ministers to push for the move. In a two-page statement shared on X, Pradhan said ...

By none@none.com (Reuters)

‘Betrayal’: The young victims of India’s exam leak scandal

The exam paper leak has fueled nationwide protests and public anger over an education system many students say is stacked against them.

Indian education minister resigns following nationwide youth protests

Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation on X on Saturday, (Jul 25) just as police fired tear gas to scatter young protesters in New Delhi, hours before their leaders were set to hold another round of talks with ministers.

India's education minister resigns after youth protests

Pradhan says he resigned to prevent anti-national forces from exploiting the situation

By Reuters

Indian education minister resigns after massive youth-led protests

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on X.

India education minister resigns after youth protest campaign

Dharmendra Pradhan, India's education minister, resigned on Saturday after weeks of nationwide student protests over examination paper leaks, marking the first major concession by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to the youth-led movement. Pradhan announced his decision in a post on X, saying he had submitted his resignation to the prime minister because he did not want "anti-national forces" to take advantage of the protests that had spread across the country.