Overview
- The three All India Students' Association activists — Neha, Manish and Aameen — stopped their indefinite hunger strike on Monday after 23 days of fasting and serious health decline, with AISA saying each lost more than 12% of body mass and suffered dangerously low blood sugar.
- A delegation of opposition MPs, civil-society figures and public personalities including Manoj Jha, Amra Ram, Rajaram Singh, Yogendra Yadav, Prashant Bhushan, Atul Sood, Prakash Raj and Shabana Azmi urged the students to end the fast and promised to carry their demands into Parliament.
- AISA’s core demands remain the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, a judicial probe into alleged competitive-exam irregularities and accountability from the National Testing Agency, with the group also targeting the National Education Policy 2020.
- The student body said it will pivot to a coordinated month-long nationwide campaign timed to the Monsoon Session, and delegation members assured that the demands will be raised in Parliament during that session.
- The protest builds on wider public anger over reported paper leaks and exam irregularities and could push parliamentary debate and public scrutiny of the NTA and NEP 2020, while the students’ medical recovery and potential legal or parliamentary probes are the immediate next developments to watch.