New Delhi, July 27 -- Former Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan received a warm welcome from BJP and NDA MPs in Parliament on Monday, two days after resigning amid nationwide protests over alleged discrepancies related to NEET exam.

Pradhan, an MP from Odisha, was greeted by party colleagues as he arrived at the Parliament complex. Stepping out of his car, he smiled, folded his hands in a namaste and made his way through cheering MPs raising slogans of "Dharmendra Pradhan zindabad".

Several BJP MPs gathered at the Makar Dwar entrance ahead of his arrival and escorted him into Parliament. In a symbolic show of solidarity, they presented him with a traditional cap and draped a ceremonial shawl over his shoulders, according to an ...