Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as India’s education minister was not an ordinary cabinet change. It was the fulfilment of the central demand raised by the Cockroach Janta Party and thousands of students who had protested for weeks over the NEET paper-leak scandal. On 25 July 2026, after sustained public pressure, Pradhan stepped down, and celebrations erupted […]
Cockroaches Won
‘Cockroaches Won’
Indian education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation gave Narendra Modi’s government a man-sized answer to a much larger failure. He left office after the Cockroach Janta Party’s protests made the paper-leak crisis impossible to contain with police barricades and internet curbs. India’s biggest street protests of recent years had shaped up to become a political flashpoint, […]