New Delhi, July 25 -- Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after massive street protests in Delhi and elsewhere demanded his exit over a string of exam paper leaks, saying it wasn't a matter of personal prestige for him.

In a statement on X, Pradhan said he had taken responsibility for the NEET paper leak from day one and resolved that they would neither let the future of meritorious students be ruined by the exam mafia nor allow injustice to any student

"Considering that anti-national forces should not take advantage of the situation that has arisen at Jantar Mantar and across the country, that the unity of the nation remains intact, that the future of even a single student in India does not get entangled in...