Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday, marking the first time a senior Modi cabinet member has been forced out by a student-led street movement in the government's 12-year tenure. The resignation came just hours before the Centre was set to enter a third round of talks with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the Gen-Z protest collective that had occupied Jantar Mantar for 36 days over the NEET paper leak crisis.

• Pradhan took to X to announce...