BJP’s NEET fix: resign, then spin
Dharmendra Pradhan is out. A BJP leader now says he’d tried to quit on Day 1 — and that the resignation somehow foiled ‘foreign forces’. Documents confirm only the resignation. The rest is party folklore until they show evidence.
The record shows a resignation; the rest remains an assertion.
The President accepted Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation from the Union Council of Ministers on July 25, and handed Education to Pralhad Joshi the same day, per the President’s Secretariat. Joshi took charge on July 26 and held a review with officials. That is the record.
What follows is the BJP’s aftercare. Party leader Kailash Vijayvargiya told reporters that Pradhan had offered to resign on the very first day of student protests, and that the party chief initially told him to hold off — his account, not a document. He also claimed Pradhan’s exit thwarted unnamed “foreign forces” allegedly plotting Bangladesh–Sri Lanka-style chaos. No agency, court, dossier or even a country name accompanies that flourish.
For Telangana readers: NEET governance is a Union job. Telangana students sit the same exam; they deserved competence, not mythology. The BJP-led Centre can show its files if there was an earlier resignation offer. And if “foreign forces” really stalked India’s campuses, the proof should be with investigators, not in a stump speech. Until then, what’s established is a resignation — and what’s padded is the BJP’s story about it.