The dalit students gathered near the entrance of the CUG this morning to condemn the alleged stern action of Hyderabad Central University, which according to them, led to the suicide of Rohith Vemula.
Around 50 Dalit students of Central University of Gujarat (CUG) on Tuesday held a peaceful protest in Gandhinagar over suicide of a Hyderabad University scholar.
The dalit students gathered near the entrance of the CUG this morning to condemn the alleged stern action of Hyderabad Central University, which according to them, led to the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a PhD student.
Terming the suicide as an "institutional murder", they demanded a free and fair inquiry into the matter
Rohith Vemula was among the five research scholars who were suspended by the university in August last year and also one of the accused in the case of assault on a student leader.
"Why nine of out of 10 students suspended by the university were Dalits?. This is certainly a serious matter. Apart from being a Dalit, Vemula was a staunch secularist, which made him a bete-noire of BJP and RSS," charged CUG student Jignesh Mewani, who is also an human rights activist.
To register their protest, around 50 dalit students of Central University held protest by holding various banners which read "Punish the culprits behind this institutional murder and "Fight this Casteism and Fascism", "Shut down brahminical universities before we kill ourselves".
"This situation is unacceptable in democracy. You cannot silence voices of dissent. The BJP government at the Centre must conduct a free and fair inquiry into the matter and punish the culprits," added Mr Mewani.