New Delhi: Activist Sonam Wangchuk ended his indefinite hunger strike after the government assured him that his demands would be met.He announced the end of his fast after Union Ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh met him at the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram around Thursday midnight and conveyed the government’s assurances.”Just now in the presence of Union Ministers JP Nadda, Dr Jitendra Singh and the senior leaders of Apex Body of Leh Ladakh, I finally broke my fast after 26 days,” Wangchuk said in a post on X.The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Friday said it was “relieved and grateful” that Wangchuk had ended his hunger strike, but asserted that its peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar would continue until Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns.In a post on X, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke thanked Wangchuk for his “extraordinary courage and sacrifice”.”We are relieved and grateful that Sonam sir has ended his hunger strike after 26 days. Thank you, sir, for your extraordinary courage and sacrifice. By putting your own life on the line, you awakened the conscience of an entire nation. Your life is far too precious to this country,” Dipke said.”The Cockroach Janta Party’s peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar will continue until Pradhan resigns,” he added. PTIModi govt treating students as ‘enemies of nation’: Sonia GandhiJuly 24, 2026 8:37 amNew Delhi: In a broadside against the Modi government, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Friday said students have demanded accountability and educational reforms, but the Modi government has responded to their courage with “cowardice and wanton cruelty, treating them not as inheritors of the future but as enemies of the nation”. She accused the government of degrading India’s education landscape and asserted that the country’s students have called the Modi government’s bluff. PTI