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New Delhi: Inventor and activist Sonam Wangchuk will attend the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s planned June 6 protest in Delhi to demand Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation if the official does not step down by then, he has announced.

Wangchuk demanded on Tuesday (June 2) that Pradhan step down in light of what he called the ‘disheartening’ state of Indian education. Combined with issues such as the NEET paper leak of last month, he said, it would prompt ‘any self-respecting education minister in any self-respecting democracy’ to resign.

Although Wangchuk said he appreciates the Modi government’s ‘intentions’ to improve Indian education – he cited his admiration of the 2020 National Education Policy – he said he becomes “very disheartened” by seeing their implementation on the ground.

“Success only follows action, desire alone does not build a country. Look at the last three or four education ministers – who has come and what miracles they have performed. When I see this, I do not think India will become viksit [developed],” Wangchuk said in a video message in Hindi on X.

The NEET paper leak is a “very big........

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