India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams. Thousands of young people gathered in the capital and in other parts of the country this week, under the banner of the social media-driven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), demanding…
A protester holds a placard after India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned following nationwide protests as part of the Cockroach Janta Party’s protest movement in Mumbai, India on Saturday. Ashish Vaishnav/AP hide caption toggle caption Ashish Vaishnav/AP NEW DELHI — India’s education minister tendered his resignation on Saturday, meeting a key demand of students whose…
Updated July 25, 2026 at 2:41 PM EDT NEW DELHI — India’s education minister tendered his resignation on Saturday, meeting a key demand of students whose anti-government protests swelled this week beyond the capital New Delhi and onto the streets of more than a dozen cities. Following news of the resignation of the education minister…
By Krishna N. Das and Tora Agarwala NEW DELHI, July 25 (Reuters) – Nearly five weeks after the leaders of India’s youth Cockroach Janta Party began their protest demanding the resignation of the education minister over exam paper leaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 75, posted a rare selfie video: he said he was pained by…
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How Wangchuk’s hunger strike rallied the crowdspublished at 13:49 BST 13:49 BST Geeta PandeyReporting from Delhi It took the “cockroaches” – as Dipke and the CJP protesters call themselves – five weeks to force a government minister to resign. In end-June, when I first visited Jantar Mantar, the main protest venue, the CJP protest had…
Pradhan announced his resignation on X in a post in Hindi saying he “respected the aspirations, dreams, and expectations of the youth” and was “pained by the events” of the past few days. “Considering the situation at Jantar Mantar and across the country – with the aim of preventing anti-national forces from exploiting it, preserving…
“Considering the situation at Jantar Mantar and across the country – with the aim of preventing anti-national forces from exploiting it, preserving national unity, ensuring that not a single Indian student’s future gets entangled in legal complexities, and allowing our children to devote their time to studies and focus on building their careers – I…
It may have started as a satirical joke, but India’s so-called ‘cockroach’ movement is celebrating after it forced the resignation of the country’s Education Minister. The campaign, which began just two months ago, had attracted growing numbers of young people willing to come out onto the streets to express their dissent with the Modi government….
