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| Rahul Gandhi Likens Rohith Vemula T |
| Rahul Gandhi Likens Rohith Vemula To Mahatma Gandhi: 10 Developments
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| INDIA
, 30-January-2016
10:56:35 AM |
| Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who had joined student protesters in a mass hunger strike at the Hyderabad Central University, likened Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula - who committed suicide earlier this month - to Mahatma Gandhi. It is Rohith's birthday today and also the day Gandhi was assassinated in 1948
He (Gandhi) lived his life searching what he called his truth, his understanding of the world. Fought for it all his life. He was killed by the forces that didn't want to hear what his truth was. The exact thing was done to Rohith," Rahul Gandhi said.
2Rohith's mother Radhika and brother, Raju, also joined the students in their hunger strike in protest against the death of the research scholar, who hung himself days after he and four other Dalit students were suspended by the university.
3"I am here today at the request of Rohith's friends and family to stand with them in their fight for justice," Mr Gandhi tweeted. He was on the campus since midnight on Saturday and sat through till the hunger strike ended this evening.
4Mr Gandhi arrived last night after a protest march and candle light vigil. He had met Rohith's family and spent the night at the university.
5The BJP has criticised Mr Gandhi's visit, his second to the campus to protest against Rohith's death. The ABVP, a student body with close links to the BJP, has called a strike in Telangana colleges in protest against Mr Gandhi's visit.
6"Rahul Gandhi and Congress are so politically bankrupt and unemployed that he has to politicise tragic death of a student repeatedly," alleged Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao.
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