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Indian education minister resigns after mass protests over exam paper leaks

Cover image: Indian Youth Congress party workers hold placards of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan during a protest over the alleged NEET exam irregularities in Mumbai on June 2, 2026. © Indranil Mukherjee, AFP

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday he had resigned from his post following mass protests calling for his dismissal. Public trust in India's university testing system has been undermined by a series of exam irregularities, including the leaking of a medical entrance question paper that forced more than two million candidates to re-sit the test.

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams.

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