{"id":8041,"date":"2026-07-23T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/indian-activist-wangchuk-ends-26-day-hunger-strike-over-exam-paper-leaks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:37:14","slug":"indian-activist-wangchuk-ends-26-day-hunger-strike-over-exam-paper-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/indian-activist-wangchuk-ends-26-day-hunger-strike-over-exam-paper-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian activist Wangchuk ends 26-day hunger strike over exam paper leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BREAKING, <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2060Sonam \u2060Wangchuk says he ended his fast to demand education minister\u2019s resignation \u2018in view of possible violence in the \u2060country\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his 26-day hunger strike demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over a series of examination paper leaks.<\/p>\n

In a post on X late on Thursday night, Wangchuk, 59, said he ended his fast after \u201ca long negotiation on various conditions and in view of possible violence in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said he would describe the conditions in a separate video.<\/p>\n

Wangchuk\u2019s announcement came shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a video address on X, saying he will bring a tougher law to check paper leaks.<\/p>\n

Modi said the government was working on measures to fast-track court proceedings<\/a> against those involved in the leaks and that the issue would be discussed by the cabinet on Friday.<\/p>\n

In his video address, Modi called the leaks a \u201cmatter of great pain\u201d for hundreds of thousands of students, without mentioning Pradhan.<\/p>\n

The activist had been on a hunger strike since June 28 in solidarity with India\u2019s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that is demanding Pradhan\u2019s resignation over medical college entrance test paper leaks, which forced millions to retake the exam.<\/p>\n

Wangchuk\u2019s announcement came as thousands of pro-CJP protesters continue to protest at New Delhi\u2019s Jantar Mantar area and across the country in one of the biggest challenges for Modi since his 2024 re-election for a third term.<\/p>\n

The CJP, which has millions of followers on social media, on Thursday said it would press ahead with its fight \u201cto fix the system and set accountability\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis country has seen many announcements of fast-track courts, but this is not the solution to the systemic issues in the education system,\u201d CJP spokesman Ashutosh Ranka said on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cModi should fix the system, remove Dharmendra Pradhan and bring accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BREAKING, \u2060Sonam \u2060Wangchuk says he ended his fast to demand education minister\u2019s resignation \u2018in view of possible violence in the \u2060country\u2019. Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his 26-day hunger strike demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over a series of examination paper leaks. In a post on X late on Thursday night, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}