The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Wednesday decided to withdraw from its countrywide agitation immediately after the Centre accepted its key demands after former Union minister for education Dharmendra Pradhan resigned.
In a joint press conference, Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh along with CJP spokespersons Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das announced the news. The development came as the cap on the clothesline for the outfit’s protest for alleged NEET-UG paper leak in the examinations and related issues which continued over the last one month.
In his address to the media, acknowledged Nadda that the government has agreed to drop all the FIRs lodged by the government and any states ruled by the NDA against the students protesters. He said they would provide copies of the FIRs to the CJP and guarantees that no further legal action would be taken against the people who took part in the protests.
The government also agreed to pay the “maximum compensation” to the families of students who reportedly took their own lives after the issue of NEET paper leak, consistent with current guidelines and regulations. One of the big demands of the CJP was this one.
The Centre, apart from that, agreed to look into the five point charter presented by the CJP on examination reforms. The government will “take a serious look” at the reforms in improving the conduct of competitive examinations and will have detailed discussions with the CJP delegation, the government said.
The CJP then confirmed on social media that it would be putting an end to its ‘agitation’ immediately after the meeting as all its demands have been accepted by the government.
The national protest began after the alleged papers leakage in the NEET-UG exam sparked anger in the public and brought transparency issues to the forefront of discussion of the competitive exam system in India.