After a month long protest against the paper leaks in the NEET examination that even resulted in students committing suicide the education minister of India Dharmendra Pradhan has today tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister.
While this is hailed a big victory for the Cockroach Janata Party which carried a month long protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi questions are still arising on what pushed the government to sacrifice one of its most trusted lieutenants.
From the need to have a normal working of the parliament that has been continuously being disrupted by the opposition parties riding on the shoulders of the student protesters to the apprehension of the protest spreading across the Hindi heartland, there are more reasons than one to this decision.
The country is also just two weeks away from celebrating another Independence and the government certainly does not want a lockdown on that day in Delhi.
Also at stake are a number of crucial bills that the government wants to pass in this session of the Parliament. The News Monk examines this resignation closely.
