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Parliament's Monsoon Session 2026 opened on July 20 already fractured over the government's recognition of the NCPI, a new outfit formed by 20 rebel Trinamool MPs, and was then dominated for days by the Opposition's demand for Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the NEET-UG paper leak. With Pradhan gone, an Income Tax Amendment Bill, a Supreme Court judges law and a politically explosive delimitation proposal are still waiting to be taken up.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on July 25 after a 37-day, Gen Z-led protest movement called the Cockroach Janta Party forced the government's hand over the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak. The National Testing Agency has sacked 47 officials, and the protests have since been called off after the government agreed to the movement's core demands.

The NEET-UG 2026 paper leak has sparked nationwide student protests, with demonstrators demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation

For more than six weeks the Opposition has demanded Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the NEET-UG paper leak. A Gen Z-led protest and a hunger strike have widened it from a Parliament issue into a street movement.