New Delhi, July 31 -- Daughter of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician, Yashaswinee Raje Singh, called the appointment of Union Minister Pralhad Joshi as the new Union education minister following Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation a "bleak joke."

"The person who's been appointed as education minister now... honestly, it feels like a very, very bleak joke," she said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

She explained why she supported student-led protests over NEET paper leak issue. She credited the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) with doing a "great job of galvanising this sort of largely apolitical audience."

"CJP did a very, very great job of galvanising this sort of largely apolitical audience that usually steers clear of such conversat...