Sonam Wangchuk has ended his 26-day hunger strike supporting the Cockroach Janta Party’s demand for the education minister’s resignation. Wangchuk’s decision to end the hunger strike came after the government moved to address the NEET paper leak controversy and youth protests with a series of assurances. Later, in the U.K. and the U.S., women’s suffrage activists in prison used hunger strikes to seek “political prisoner” status. During the independence movement, militant activists Bhagat Singh and Jatin Das, among many others, went on hunger strike during their prison days. Third, leftist student groups lent their support at the recent hunger strike venue in New Delhi.