Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokespersons Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das met a union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh on Friday, as part of the second such high-level meeting with the Centre amid ongoing student protests in Delhi. After the meeting, Ranka told the media that the government has “in-principle” agreed to two demands and has sought time till tomorrow to respond to Pradhan’s resignation demand.
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This was the second meeting between the government and the CJP, which has been spearheading a big protest seeking education reforms and resignation of Pradhan over the NEET-UG paper leak case.
“Dharmendra Pradhan needs to resign or he needs to be sacked. We spoke to the government in detail about this. The government has sought time till tomorrow afternoon to respond to this demand,” Ranka told reporters, warning that delay in Pradhan’s removal would only make the protest bigger.
During the same media interaction, Ranka also said that during the meeting the government approved “in-principle” two demands by the CJP – compensation for families of NEET aspirants who died by suicide, and withdrawal of legal cases against student protesters.
