The BJP-led government must be thanked for standing back and securing the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan amidst an explosion of youth protests across the country over the NEET paper leak issue. Pradhan’s exit comes after a lot of posturing by the government, starting with the transfer of the education secretary and National Testing Agency officials and talks with some leaders of the two-month-old Cockroach Janta Party. It was bad enough that a contemptuous description of unemployed youth as cockroaches in May provoked the rise of the CJP, followed by a long fast by activist Sonam Wangchuk. Then came a groundswell of protest, which snowballed into the demand for the minister’s ouster. But the attempt to quell the uprising using savage........

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