BENGALURU, July 20 -- Hundreds of people, most of them students, gathered at Bengaluru's Freedom Park on Sunday to back climate and education activist Sonam Wangchuk, linking his ongoing hunger strike with demands for accountability over the NEET paper leak and the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

The demonstration was held in solidarity with the protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, where the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has been staging an agitation over alleged failures in the conduct of the national medical entrance examination. The Bengaluru gathering came a day after police removed Wangchuk from the protest site and shifted him to a government hospital during the 21st day of his indefinite fast.

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