Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned Saturday, surrendering to a month of furious student-led protests over the NEET-UG paper leak. In a lengthy X post, Pradhan declared his departure was "not a matter of personal prestige" but a bid to shield students from being exploited by "anti-national forces." The Cockroach Janta Party, the protest movement's unlikely face, hailed it as a watershed victory.

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