Education minister resigns: 'Exhilarating moment' for India's youth as they demand accountability

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 09:46 Issued on: 29/07/2026 - 19:59Modified: 29/07/2026 - 19:59 Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Anish Gawande, National Spokesperson for the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). As India's younger generation challenges Modi's hardline government, Gawande frames recent government concessions, including the resignation of the Education Minister, the passage of tougher anti-cheating legislation and the appointment of a reform task force, as evidence that sustained youth mobilisation can compel accountability even within a highly centralised political system. He argues that the government's response remains fundamentally procedural rather than structural. Higher penalties and administrative reshuffling, he suggests, fail to address deeper institutional weaknesses in educational governance, technological preparedness and democratic consultation. More significantly, Gawande portrays the movement as signalling a wide...