Lucknow/Varanasi, July 26 -- Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation on Saturday gave ammunition to the Opposition parties to attack the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre.

The Opposition parties termed it a major victory for the country's youth and stated that the government would now learn a lesson to prevent future exam paper leaks.

Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav, who had thrown his weight behind the protesters by joining a sit-in near Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence alongside Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, welcomed the news.

Speaking to the media in Azamgarh, where he visited the residence of Alam Badi, the Nizamabad MLA who passed away on July 23, Yadav said the resignation...