After Dharmendra Pradhan exit, why Punjab minister faces Opposition storm as Sisodia challenge backfires

While visiting Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to support the protest of students and youths demanding Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation on July 20, Punjab education minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Harjot Singh Bains would not have anticipated that he will soon face a similar demand in his state slated for the Assembly polls in February 2027.While Pradhan was forced to resign five days later, the Opposition parties in Punjab have now intensified their campaign against Bains, which seemed to have been fuelled by remarks made by senior AAP leader and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.During his visit to Jantar Mantar on July 19 to back the protesters’ call for Pradhan’s sacking over the NEET paper leak, Sisodia, in an interview with a web channel, said