It is to the Cockroach Janta Party’s credit that they were able to get Sonam Wangchuk, a man of great integrity, to back their demand for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Wangchuk has chosen the Gandhian way and has been on a hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar for nearly 20 days.

Many public figures, ranging from Arvind Kejriwal to Vir Sanghvi, Vishal Dadlani, Shobhaa De, Aamir Khan and Sonakshi Sinha, have urged Wangchuk to end his fast. As Kejriwal put it, we need men like Sonam Wangchuk to live, not die.

In the materialistic world in which we live, it is only once in a very long while that we come across people who are willing to emerge from their comfort zones and fight for a just cause. In recent times, we think of Anna Hazare as one such man, to whom Wangchuk has been compared. Whether the comparison is tenable or not, I cannot say.

But the fact is that Wangchuk is acting here from purely selfless motives. He has nothing but the interests of students at heart, who have suffered a great deal on account of examination malpractices that have gone on for long, with zero accountability on the part of the establishment.

But let’s........

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