De-escalation: Dharmendra Pradhan resigns; CJP withdraws protest

The Cockroach Janta Party ended its Jantar Mantar sit-in after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned. The group announced the withdrawal at a joint press conference with Union ministers J P Nadda and Jitendra Singh and asked demonstrators to go home.

Under the terms announced, the Centre will withdraw all police cases filed against protesters anywhere in India and give a written guarantee by Tuesday that no action will be taken in the future. Copies of those case files are to be shared within three to four days, and the families of students who died by suicide after the medical entrance test was cancelled will receive the maximum compensation allowed under the rules. Both sides will meet again in four weeks to take up a five-point exam reform charter submitted by the CJP.

Accounts differed on how long the sit-in ran, with organisers calling it 36 or 37 days and some tallies counting 49 days from an earlier start on June 6. A public apology from the Rapid Action Force and Delhi Police remains on the CJP’s list. The withdrawal ends the month-long occupation and starts a four-week clock toward a second round of talks and a written guarantee on dropping cases.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources