India, July 25 -- Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday resigned after weeks of student- and youth-led protests over the NEET-UG paper leak, becoming one of only two ministers in Narendra Modi-led governments to step down over a controversy.

The protests, spearheaded by the satirical Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), had drawn nationwide sit-ins since June.

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Resignations on moral grounds are uncommon in Indian politics, but they aren't unknown. Ministers have stepped down over rail and air disasters, financial scandals and corruption charges, wartime failures and terror attacks, sexual harassment allegations - and, in one case, over the price of onions.

The instances involved a political lead...