She said the two-member fact-finding committee sent by the ministry to the university yesterday will return in the evening and give its formal report. She said the matter is sub judice and assured that judiciary will provide justice to all.
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The Congress spokesperson also asked Irani if she agreed with her ministerial colleague Ramvilas Paswan’ suggestion that there should be an inquiry into the scholar’s death.
“She should read the letter written on December 18, 2015, wherein Rohith wrote to the VC alleging the derogatory remarks that the ABVP activists were hurling at the SC students in the university”.
TRS MP K. Kavitha had said on Monday that Dattatreya and Irani brought pressure on the university authorities. “We can’t see more youths dying in the universities”, the MIM leader told students. “We also launched a protest when Osmania University had given the go-ahead for organising a beef festival recently”, he stressed.
Rohith, a second-year research scholar of Science, Technology and Society Studies Department, and others were suspended from the hostel last year following allegations that they attacked Sushil Kumar after the screening of a controversial documentary “Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai”.
He assured the students that they were not alone and that this is happening in every university.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is the student wing of the RSS and is allied to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The forum members demanded revocation of suspension of four students who were punished along with research scholar Rohith Vemula over their alleged involvement in assault on an ABVP leader.
The court in return had several times asked the University about what decision it had taken on the complaint, he said.
Protesters allege that the university’s decision was linked to a letter that Bandaru Dattatreya, the BJP parliamentarian from Secunderabad, wrote to Education Minister Smriti Irani alleging that the university had become a “den of casteist, extremist and anti-national politics”. “I would have happily forwarded representations of any other student body if they were to have approached me”, he said in a statement.
The minister also conveyed her condolences to Rohith’s family, saying she would not indulge in political mudslinging at this sombre moment.
“I am not sure whether suspension has really been the cause for suicide”.
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The Congress MP also held the university administration responsible for a series of suicides committed by students belonging to the marginalised communities and sought the ministry’s intervention.
