India’s education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned after weeks-long Gen Z-led protests.

Handing a major victory to the protesters nationwide who demanded that he take responsibility for the leak of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), India's undergraduate medical school entrance exam, the minister announced his resignation on X on Saturday.

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