International Media on Dharmendra Pradhan Resignation: What is the world’s reaction to Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation? Know what the foreign media said about the student movement and Modi government.
Dharmendra Pradhan Resignation Global Media Reactions: The resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan amid the NEET controversy has attracted the attention of not only India but also the world. Major international media organizations like BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, CNN and Dawn covered it prominently. Different institutions looked at this development from their own perspective and wrote many things on the government, student movement and future politics. Let us know how the foreign media saw this entire incident and what they wrote…
Pakistani newspaper The Dawn described the historic victory of the cockroach.
Pakistan’s newspaper Dawn made it its top story. Dawn wrote that this issue, which started with the leaking of examination papers, soon became India’s biggest mass movement. According to Dawn’s report, at Jantar Mantar, where police had lathicharged on Monday, as soon as the news of resignation came on Saturday, people fed each other sweets, raised slogans of ‘Jai Hind’ and celebrated by playing the national anthem on loudspeakers.
What did BBC write?
Britain’s famous news network BBC says that since 2014, the Modi government’s record has been that it does not easily succumb to protests. Earlier, all three agricultural laws had to be withdrawn only at the time of the farmers’ movement. BBC wrote, ‘This time the government did not correctly estimate the anger of the students. Initially this protest was ignored for several weeks. But as soon as the police showed strictness against the students marching towards the Parliament, the whole country got enraged and the government was left with no option but to seek resignation from the minister.
The Guardian wrote- ‘This happened for the first time in 12 years’
Another big British newspaper, The Guardian, has described this resignation as historic. It is clearly written in the report that this is the first time in the 12 years of Bharatiya Janata Party’s rule, when under immense public pressure, a minister so close and trusted to the Prime Minister has had to leave his post. According to the Guardian, as soon as thousands of CJP supporters sitting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi got the news of the resignation, celebrations started there. The students called it the biggest victory of their demand for accountability.
CNN wrote- ‘One meme shook the entire government’
American news channel CNN has linked this to the unemployment and anger of the youth. CNN says that the story which started as a joke and ‘meme’ on the Internet, has brought together millions of job-seeking youth of the country. Referring to a report by Azim Premji University, CNN also wrote, ‘India is the youngest country in the world, where there are more than 36 crore youth aged 15 to 29 years. About 40% of graduates under 25 years of age in the country are unemployed. Not getting a job after studies became the biggest root of this entire movement.
What did the New York Times write?
America’s top newspaper New York Times (NYT) has attacked the ‘ego’ behind this whole matter. The newspaper reminded how in the beginning the Education Minister was not taking this movement seriously. NYT wrote, ‘During an interview in June, Dharmendra Pradhan even called these student protesters the ‘B-team of terrorists’. After this, the anger of these students, who called themselves ‘cockroaches’, flared up further and this movement spread to many cities of the country. Now after this resignation, the morale of the students will increase further.