PM Modi | The big challenges
Beyond NEET, there are six other key issues across politics, the economy and governance that will test Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his leadership
(Photograph by Chandradeep Kumar)
ISSUE DATE: Aug 10, 2026 | UPDATED: Aug 5, 2026 12:52 IST
At 10.40 on the morning of July 27, when Dharmendra Pradhan arrived at Parliament, MPs from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) gathered to receive him. They walked the former Union education minister in, chanting ‘Dharmendra Pradhan zindabad’, and put a Maithili cap and a shawl on a man who had resigned 48 hours earlier under pressure from the street.