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India’s viral Cockroach Janta Party called off its nationwide protests on Saturday after the country’s education minister resigned and the government agreed to a number of the activist movement’s demands.
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Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation on X after talks with the CJP, which has demanded major reforms after the handling of an alleged exam paper leak triggered one of India’s biggest displays of public dissent in recent years, including one activist’s 26-day hunger strike.
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Ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh later told a press conference all police cases against protesters would be dropped and the government will pay compensation to the families of students who died by suicide after the alleged paper leaks, according to Reuters news agency. The government will also consider the CJP’s proposals for reforms to exams, the group said.
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The scandal has been growing since May, when online leaks disrupted the NEET undergraduate exam, the fiercely competitive gateway to India’s medical schools.
Anger among India’s young people has exploded onto the streets in recent weeks, with protests spreading from New Delhi to other cities around the country, including Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad. Authorities have struggled to contain the growing protests, with police deploying tear gas and batons against the vast crowds close to the country’s Parliament building in New Delhi earlier this week.
The CJP, named after a remark from India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant comparing unemployed young people to “cockroaches,” became the center of what has been one of the biggest challenges to Modi in his 12 years in power.