{"id":17594,"date":"2026-06-06T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/why-should-a-minister-resign-up-education-minister-yogendra-upadhyay-trolled-for-defending-dharmendra-pradhan-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:02:26","slug":"why-should-a-minister-resign-up-education-minister-yogendra-upadhyay-trolled-for-defending-dharmendra-pradhan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/why-should-a-minister-resign-up-education-minister-yogendra-upadhyay-trolled-for-defending-dharmendra-pradhan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Why should a minister resign?&#8217; UP Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay trolled for defending Dharmendra Pradhan\u2014 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131549321,imgsize-99066,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/131549321.jpg\" alt=\"'Why should a minister resign?' UP Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay trolled for defending Dharmendra Pradhan\u2014 video\" title=\"ANI file photo\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A video of Uttar Pradesh Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay defending Union Education Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dharmendra-pradhan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Dharmendra Pradhan<\/a> is doing rounds on social media amid demand for his resignation over exam-related controversies and the CBSE OSM system.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>In the video, Upadhyay questioned why a minister should resign over alleged irregularities and said responsibility cannot be directly fixed on the minister. He said, \u201cWhy should a minister resign? Has any minister resigned before this? A minister is not responsible.\u201d He added, \u201cThe minister was not involved in this. If the minister was involved, he would have definitely gone to jail.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>\u201cA bearded person can murder and a moustached person can be arrested. <!-- -->This will not work,\u201d as he argued that individuals, not ministers, should be held accountable in such cases.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Congress shared the video online saying, \u201c\u2018The minister is not responsible for paper leaks\u2019\u2014these are the words of Uttar Pradesh Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay. This shows that BJP leaders have crossed all limits of shamelessness. According to them, even if there are paper leaks in the country or the education system collapses, Dharmendra Pradhan should not resign from the post of Education Minister. Paper leaks are destroying the dreams of lakhs of students in the country, but ministers, intoxicated with power, are giving sermons.<!-- -->\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Meanwhile, Cockroach Janta Party are holding protests at Delhi&#8217;s Jantar Mantar, demanding the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over alleged irregularities in CBSE class 12th results and tender, and NEET paper leak.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/> The NEET-UG 2026 exam, originally scheduled for May 3, 2026, was cancelled by the National Testing Agency (NTA) due to a massive paper leak that compromised the fairness of the entrance test for medical courses. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>CBSE also faces controversy over irregularities in its Class XII board exam results. The problems were linked to the new On-Screen Marking (OSM) portal used for evaluating answer sheets and to the tender process for selecting the technology vendor.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/why-should-a-minister-resign-up-education-minister-yogendra-upadhyay-trolled-for-defending-dharmendra-pradhan-video\/articleshow\/131549202.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Uttar Pradesh Education Minister Yogendra Upadhyay defending Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is doing rounds on social media amid demand for his resignation over exam-related controversies and the CBSE OSM system.In the video, Upadhyay questioned why a minister should resign over alleged irregularities and said responsibility cannot be directly fixed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-education"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}