India, July 27 -- Dharmendra Pradhan received a rousing welcome at Parliament on Tuesday morning as he made his first public appearance since announcing resignation as education minister. As Pradhan stepped down from his car at the Parliament premises, he greeted the media. As he moved ahead, several NDA MPs circled him and raised "Dharmendra Pradhan zindabad" slogans.

The development came two days after Pradhan stepped down from the post of education minister amid massive calls for his resignation over the NEET-UG paper leak and subsequent suicides of several aspirants.

In his resignation letter, Pradhan had said that he was resigning for the sake of students and their future. However, several BJP MPs later hailed him as a big educatio...