India’s education minister resigned on Saturday, ​handing a major victory to youth protesters who had demanded he step down to take responsibility for examination paper leaks, and who erupted in celebration on news of his departure.“We have done it,” said Abhijeet Dipke, ​founder of the Cockroach Janta Party that led the protests, to loud cheers at the Jantar Mantar protest ⁠site in the Indian capital, New Delhi.India’s biggest street protests of recent years have become a ‌political ‌flashpoint, ​posing one of the biggest challenges to prime minister Narendra Modi as politicians joined youngsters’ calls to demand action.“Considering the situation that ⁠has arisen at Jantar Mantar [protest ​site] and across the country, so that ​anti-national forces do not take advantage of this situation ... I have sent my resignation letter ‌to the prime minister,” Dharmendra Pradhan wrote ​in a post on social media platform X.“I deeply respect the aspirations, feelings, and legitimate expectations of the country’s ⁠youth.”[ How India’s young ‘cockroach’ movement has posed the biggest challenge to Modi in years ]The minister announced his resignation ⁠on X just ​as police fired tear gas to scatter young protesters in New Delhi, hours before their leaders were set to hold another round of talks with ministers.Youngsters at the Jantar Mantar site shouted “Jai Hind”, a patriotic slogan meaning “Victory to India”.Thousands of supporters of India’s youth-led “cockroach” movement had been protesting since last month, but anger boiled over since police on Monday injured dozens of students, launching baton charges and ‌firing tear gas to ⁠deter crowds of protesters marching on parliament.The protests, led largely by young people and triggered by discontent over leaks of question papers for high-stakes entrance exams, ‌reflect anger over job scarcity, corruption and government accountability.Federal authorities even on Saturday restricted access to the internet ​and to 18 metro stations to try to limit ​the protest in the capital, the latest day of such restrictions. – Reuters