Hyderabad, June 14 -- On a breezy Sunday morning (June 14) in Hyderabad, students, parents and concerned citizens gathered at Dharna Chowk under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) to demand accountability over the irregularities in this year's NEET UG and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations. They called for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and pressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence on the issue.

The crowd was largely young, aspirants who had studied through the night for examinations that were then mired in controversy, and parents who had staked savings and hope on those same exams. But there were others too - teachers, activists and older citizens who said...