印度教育部长德哈伦德拉·普拉丹因持续数周的学生抗议宣布辞职[1]。此次抗议由蟑螂人民党(CJP)领导，源于NEET-UG全国医学入学考试试题泄露丑闻[1]。该事件导致超220万名医学专业考生受影响，至少20名学生自杀[1]。普拉丹辞职后，蟑螂人民党首席发言人萨乌拉夫·达斯表示"所有诉求都被接纳"，并要求抗议者立即撤离并安全回家，随后宣布结束抗议[1]。
7月20日，数十万青年学生进行了历史性游行至议会，警方使用催泪瓦斯和警棍驱散了示威者[1]。蟑螂人民党创始人阿比吉特·迪普克表示已被确诊伤寒[1]。印度国会议员沙希·塔鲁尔就此表示，"教育部长辞职承认民主中问责不能被无限期回避"[1]。
比哈尔邦资深议员普拉哈德·乔希已被任命为新教育部长，成为该部第五次宫调职者[1]。
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has announced his resignation following weeks of sustained protests led by the Cockroach People's Party (CJP) over a major examination scandal [1]. The demonstrations were triggered by a question paper leak in the NEET-UG national medical entrance exam, which affected over 2.2 million medical candidates and resulted in at least 20 student suicides [1].
Following Pradhan's resignation, the CJP declared an end to the protest campaign, stating that all major demands had been met [1]. CJP chief spokesperson Saurav Das announced: "All demands have been accepted, we are asking protesters to immediately vacate and go back home safely" [1]. Prahlad Joshi, a senior legislator from Bihar, has been appointed as the new Education Minister, marking the fifth ministerial change in this portfolio [1].
The protests had escalated significantly, with hundreds of thousands of students staging a historic march to parliament on July 20, during which police deployed tear gas and batons to disperse the crowds [1]. CJP founder Abhijit Deepak reported being diagnosed with typhoid [1], while Indian Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor remarked that "the Education Minister's resignation acknowledges that accountability in democracy cannot be indefinitely evaded" [1].