New Delhi: Breaking its silence on Sonam Wangchuck’s starvation strike, the Congress publicly echoed her calls for on Thursday, with celebration common secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal urging the activist to finish her quick, whereas reaffirming the Congress’ demand for training minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.
“The Indian Nationwide Congress has been making this very demand for over a month and a half. We share the anguish and outrage that Shri Wangchuk feels, particularly on the lack of accountability throughout the Modi authorities and the breakdown within the examination system specifically,” Venugopal stated in a publish on X.
“In view of his well being situation, we attraction to Shri Wangchuk to finish his quick. His issues are ours and the issues of different opposition events as nicely. Relaxation assured, we’ll proceed to confront the Modi authorities and demand the resignation of the Training Minister,” he added.
Nonetheless, Venugopal’s X publish doesn’t point out the Cockroach Janta Celebration (CJP), which has began a protest in Jantar Mantar demanding the training minister’s resignation. Relating to the NEET UG paper leak incident. Mr Wangchuk later joined the CJP protests and has been on an indefinite starvation strike at Jantar Mantar for the previous 19 days.
On Thursday, Aam Aadmi Celebration convener and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Samajwadi Celebration (SP) MP Dimple Yadav visited Jantar Mantar.
Shri Sonam Wangchuck is at present on a 19-day starvation strike demanding the resignation of the Federal Training Minister.
The Indian Nationwide Congress has been making this very demand for over a month and a half. We share the anguish and outrage that Shri Wangchuck Ji feels.
— KC Venugopal (@kcvenugopalmp) July 16, 2026
Congressional sources advised ThePrint that the celebration stays cautious of the motion, which it believes is more and more being pushed by left-wing organizations. Additionally they worry that it may evolve into ‘AAP 2.0’, a political power that would ultimately eat into the Congress’s personal help base.
Venugopal’s assertion got here hours after Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh defended the celebration’s stand when requested why it had not prolonged formal help to Wangchuk’s agitation. “We now have been demanding accountability from the federal government. We now have been demanding Pradhan’s resignation,” Ramesh stated, including that the Congress had been elevating the problem for almost two months.
Over the previous three weeks, political events like AAP, SP, Shiv Sena (UBT), Trinamool Congress (TMC), CPI, CPI (ML) Liberation and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have supported the agitation. DMK leaders additionally visited the protest web site, whereas delegations from left events, AAP, SP and TMC met protesters at Jantar Mantar.
Earlier, senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor had additionally written to Mr Wangchuck, expressing solidarity together with his issues over the testing system and asking him to handle his personal well being whereas assuring him that the problems he had raised have been value addressing.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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