Why Youth Protests Made the Modi Government Back Down on Dharmendra Pradhan
On July 25, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation, meeting a key demand of protesters who had gathered under the banner of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar for 36 days. It was not the first time the Narendra Modi government had bowed to street pressure. It was the third such…