Wish my son was alive to see Pradhan's resignation: Father of NEET aspirant
The grieving father of a 21-year-old NEET aspirant who died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Kheri district on Sunday (July 26, 2026) lamented that his son was not alive to witness the 37-day-long protest that ended with Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as Union Education Minister. Mishra said.He added that the government’s decision to cancel the exams left him in utter despair, and he took his own life on May 14, a day before the re-test was announced. Student suicides jumped 80% in ten years; over 2,000 die by suicide every year due to exam failuresSpeaking over the phone from a hospital in Lucknow, where he is attending to his ailing wife, the 46-year-old father said had Mr.
- ▪The grieving father of a 21-year-old NEET aspirant who died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Kheri district on Sunday (July 26, 2026) lamented that his son was not alive to witness the 37-day-long protest that ended with Dharmendra Pradhan’s r
- ▪Mishra said.He added that the government’s decision to cancel the exams left him in utter despair, and he took his own life on May 14, a day before the re-test was announced.
- ▪Student suicides jumped 80% in ten years; over 2,000 die by suicide every year due to exam failuresSpeaking over the phone from a hospital in Lucknow, where he is attending to his ailing wife, the 46-year-old father said had Mr.
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The grieving father of a 21-year-old NEET aspirant who died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Kheri district on Sunday (July 26, 2026) lamented that his son was not alive to witness the 37-day-long protest that ended with Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation as Union Education Minister. The ‘cockroaches’ who refuse to crawl awayThough the Centre has accepted the Cockroach Janata Party’s demand to provide compensation to the families of 21 NEET students who took their own lives, Anup Mishra said such an announcement can do little to fill the void created by the death of his son, Ritik.Also Read | NEET-UG aspirant dies after falling from building in Indore; family says she took her life due to exam stressWhen the alleged NEET-UG 2026 exam paper leak surfaced, Ritik was heartbroken, as it was his…
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