New Delhi, July 27 -- After Prahlad Joshi replaced Dharmendra Pradhan as India's Education Minister, netizens were quick to dig up his controversial comments about Indians studying medicine abroad. A Congress leader took potshots at Joshi over his 2022 remark, saying, "One disaster replaced by another."

In a statement, when thousands of Indian students were stuck in war-torn Ukraine in 2022, Prahlad Joshi had controversially said that 90 per cent of students going abroad to study medicine won't clear Indian entrance examinations.

Joshi had made the comment in Belagavi, Karnataka, while briefing the media on the steps taken to evacuate students stranded in Ukraine.

He, however, had said that this was not the time to debate why students ...