NEW DELHI, JULY 25, 2026: Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan has tendered his resignation on Saturday amid ongoing protests over the NEET paper leak in the country.
Mr Pradhan has announced his resignation on X and addressed a two-page letter to his ‘young friends’. Pradhan said he has submitted his resignation letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, given the situation that has developed at Jantar Mantar and across the country.
Pradhan said he did not want to allow tens of thousands of students calling for his resignation to be taken advantage of by “anti-national forces”. He said he did not want to see pupils become “entangled in legal complexities” instead of studying and building their careers.
‘Democracy won!’
“We have done it,” said Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the satire movement that led the protests, to loud cheers at the Jantar Mantar protest site in New Delhi, where authorities restricted access to the internet and closed 18 metro stations around it. Similar celebrations were also reported from other cities across the country.
The CJP said it has three more demands: one crore rupees to the families of all students who died by suicide, no punitive action against people who participated in the protests, and a public apology from Delhi Police and the Rapid Action Force paramilitary over the attacks on the protesters.
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