He also demanded removal of Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya against whom an FIR was registered in the case.
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Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters here that the “anti-Dalit mindset of the BJP and the RSS” has been manifesting itself over the last 20 months in various forms across the country.
“Such a baseless and misleading statement coming from Honourable Minister of HRD amounts to bringing down the morale of the Dalits holding administrative positions in this university as well as other universities…In response to the Honourable Minister’s fabricated statements, we the Dalit (SC/ST) faculty and officers will lay down our administrative positions”, the statement said.
Ten University of Hyderabad professors belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes on Thursday morning resigned from all administrative posts in solidarity with students protesting the suspension of five students, one of whom – Rohith Vemula – committed suicide last Sunday.
It was the Executive council of the University that then approved the expulsion of five students including Rohith, they said.
They said it was just a coincidence that the chief warden was a Dalit and he only implemented the orders of the higher authorities that proclaimed of suspension of five students, including Rohith.
Kejriwal said he was ready to stage a sit-in at Vice Chancellor P. Appa Rao’s office to seek his ouster but was advised against it by the student community.
“It is a matter of shame that a responsible central minister, without inquiring about the facts, had concluded that the Ambedkar student group of which Vemula was a member was casteist and anti-national”.
“There has been a malicious attempt to project the issue as a caste battle”. “It is very easy to ignite passions and repent in leisure”, she added. “If they (Congress) had fixed the problem four years ago, perhaps Rohith would have been alive”, the minister said.
She flashed a letter, saying it was the only document police got while investigating the case.
He said the SC/ST Forum of teachers of Hyderabad University also has found fault with some of Irani’s remarks.
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She also said that the Human Resource Development Ministry has responded to all the letters related to problems in the Hyderabad Central University whether it was written by a member of the current government or by any MP from Congress.
