NEW DELHI: Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his hunger strike after 26 days, he said on Friday. He said in a post on X that he had ended his fast after “a long negotiation on various conditions and in view of possible violence in the country.” Wangchuk, 59, had been on a hunger strike since June 28 in solidarity with India’s youth-led “cockroach movement” that is demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over medical college entrance test paper leaks.
Indian activist Wangchuk ends 26-day hunger strike
Wangchuk had been on a hunger strike in solidarity with India’s youth-led “cockroach movement”
July 23, 2026 23:17
NEW DELHI: Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his hunger strike after 26 days, he said on Friday.
He said in a post on X that he had ended his fast after “a long negotiation on various conditions and in view of possible violence in the country.”
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Sonam Wangchuk has been fasting in New Delhi since June 28 in solidarity with Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party.
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