India’s education minister resigns after mass protests by Cockroach movement

India's education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, has resigned following a week of mass demonstrations by a youth movement known as the Cockroach movement. The protests were triggered by an exam leak scandal. The Guardian reports that Pradhan's departure hands a major victory to this new youth-led movement, which has posed an unprecedented challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

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