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 Pranav Baskar and Anupreeta Das

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 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: 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

'We won't go': CJP's Dipke says protests to continue till all demands met

By TOI NEWS DESK

How Delhi’s Jantar Mantar found out about Pradhan’s resignation, and reacted

‘Thanks for calling us cockroaches’: Abhijeet Dipke's message for CJI Surya Kant as Modi govt gives in, minister resigns

CJP traces origin, name to May hearing at which CJI Kant used "cockroaches" and "parasites" for jobless youth and later clarified he meant fake degree holders

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

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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)

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.