India's education minister resigned Saturday, handing a major victory to youth protesters who had demanded he step down over examination paper leaks.
The announcement sparked jubilant celebrations among demonstrators who had spent weeks calling for accountability.
"We have done it," Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, which led the protests, told cheering supporters gathered at the Jantar Mantar protest site in New Delhi.
The demonstrations, among India's largest in recent years, became a major political flashpoint and one of the toughest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. Opposition lawmakers backed the protesters' demands for action and repeatedly disrupted Parliament.
"Considering the situation that has arisen at Jantar Mantar 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," Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan wrote in a post on X.
