After assuming office, Joshi thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the responsibility. In a post on X, he said he accepted the role with “humility and a deep sense of duty.”

A day after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Union Education Minister, senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya claimed he had offered to quit on the very first day of the student protests.

West Bengal could soon have a new Assembly building, with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari expressing confidence that delimitation and the Women’s Reservation Bill will significantly increase the Assembly’s strength.