Joshi has been a member of the cabinet since 2019 and is seen as close to powerful PM Modi.
The weeks-long Gen Z-led protests forced a key Modi minister to resign. Where does the movement go from here?
Dharmendra Pradhan resigned from his post on July 25, following the Cockroach Janta Party-led student protests across the country, demanding his ouster over the NEET paper leak controversy
India’s Education Minister has resigned after 36 days of continuous protests by Cockroach Janta Party-led people.
The President of India has directed that Pralhad Joshi, Cabinet Minister, be assigned the charge of the Ministry of Education, in addition to his existing portfolio, as advised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has called off its protest, hours after the resignation of India's education minister
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...
Mr. Pradhan announced his decision to quit in a post on X
The two groups of MPs stood at the Makar Dwar and shouted slogans; Opposition MPs call for the resignation of the Union Education Minister, and NDA MPs accused the Opposition of politicising the issue
Cockroach Janta Party protesters are occupying streets in New Delhi, demanding Education Minister Pradhan resign.
The Congress leader says there have been 156 paper leaks and ‘zero convictions’, the Opposition is ‘100% in agreement’ with the protesters’ demands, describing them as ‘legitimate’ and ‘non-negotiable’
Union Minister of State for the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh, the government’s interlocutor, met LoP Rahul Gandhi at the sit-in; Mr. Singh says Mr. Gandhi initially agreed to suspend the dharna but later also raised the demand of Dharmendra Pradhan’s ouster as Education Minister; to this, Mr. Singh said it did ‘behove an LoP to change stance’
The triangle of strikers have a common demand, the resignation of the Union Education Minister; activist Sonam Wangchuk is on the CJP stage; six CPI(ML) students and nine unaffiliated protesters sit on either side