PM Narendra Modi’s statement insulting, say Hyderabad university students

“Based on its observations and findings, the Ministry has chose to constitute a Judicial Commission to review the entire sequence of events and the circumstances and to establish the facts and correctives in the context of the University”, the statement said. The report will be submitted in three months.

“This protest is for justice, which can be attained with the resignation of Union Ministers Smriti Irani, Bandaru Dattatreya and the VC”, he said.

That apart, the ministry also promised to set up a cell in its office to receive complaints from such students and take quick action on their grievances.

To address the issue of discrimination on campus, the government will issue a special charter to all centrally funded institutions. Under this, mentors will be arranged for disadvantaged students not only to assist them in education but to support them to face challenges.

“The boy was pushed to the limit of committing suicide and after everything that has happened since, the Prime Minister has now found the time to shed tears”.

Trouble is brewing for the Narendra Modi government as the Telangana government report sent to the Centre has reaffirmed that the deceased student, who committed suicide at Hyderabad Central University, was a dalit and the case comes under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, YSR Congress Party leader Jagan Mohan Reddy and Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Derek O’Brien have already visited the University of Hyderabad to express their solidarity with the protesting students.

JAC, which continued its protest on the campus, wanted to know if Modi will take action against BJP ministers for the injustice meted out to Rohith and other research scholars.

The five students, including Rohith, were barred from staying in the university hostels or gather in the administrative building and other common places in groups till the complete their courses and programmes at the institution. It was headed by an upper caste Professor Vipin Srivastava and there are no Dalit faculty in the sub-committee of the Executive Council. Dalit students from the cabinet.

The statement said that, by deflecting the issue, Ms. Irani was absolving herself and Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya from responsibilit for the death of Rohith.

“We are followers of Baba Saheb and students of Constitution and law…”