Education Minister Resigns After Youth Protests — a First Under Modi

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned July 25, 2026, after about a week of nationwide youth protests over an exam leak scandal affecting millions of students and linked to over a dozen suicides. Pradhan told Modi he was stepping down so "anti-national forces do not take advantage." It is the first mass-protest-driven ministerial resignation in Modi's 12-year rule.