BREAKING: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan quits amid NEET paper leak fallout

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned, bowing to weeks of political and public pressure over the NEET-UG paper leak controversy.His resignation comes after a sustained campaign by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which had made his ouster a central demand of its protest movement.In his resignation letter, Pradhan said the past ten days had troubled him deeply, insisting this was never about personal prestige. He said he could not let India's youth get trapped in a "cycle of confusion," and did not want any student's future entangled in legal complications. He thanked the Prime Minister for his guidance and support, and said national service remained the highest priority of his life.