Modi's party faces key state elections next year. Celebrations erupted at the Jantar Mantar protest site in the capital Delhi, with thousands of youngsters chanting victory slogans and dancing. Roads ⁠around the central business district of Connaught Place near the protest site were shut amid celebrations and a swelling crowd of thousands of protesters. This is a win for the constitution," protester Tluanga Ralte said, walking with a copy of the Indian constitution at the protest site after Pradhan's resignation. Pradhan, 57, a senior member of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and the son of a veteran BJP leader, had been education minister since ​2021.