New Delhi, July 23 -- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has been in the eye of the storm over alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG exam. For more than a month now, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has been protesting in New Delhi demanding Pradhan's resignation over the paper leaks controversy.

Pradhan, the BJP MP from Sambalpur in Odisha, was appointed the Education Minister in 2021, after previously holding portfolios including Petroleum, Skill Development and Steel.

As Pradhan continues to face the heat, an old news report has resurfaced, in which his colleagues recall how the current union minister once led a student protest in Odisha against alleged paper leaks.

According to a report by The New Indian Express, in 1997, w...