A statement issued on Tuesday took objection to how Shah, in an interview with Republic TV, had “belittled the Rohith Vemula movement as politics of provocation and polarisation of SCs and STs”
By K.M. Rakesh
Dalit activists, including the brother of Rohith Vemula, have objected to Union home minister Amit Shah mocking their movement seeking justice for the University of Hyderabad research student who took his own life over alleged caste discrimination.
A statement issued on Tuesday took objection to how Shah, in an interview with Republic TV, had “belittled the Rohith Vemula movement as politics of provocation and polarisation of SCs and STs”.
“Rohith Vemula is Dalit, to which no defence needs to be made as his life itself speaks of the quantum of discrimination and struggle which Amit Shah and the BJP bandwagon have no clue of as they represent dominant caste interests,” noted the statement issued by Rohith’s brother Raja Vemula and others.
In the interview broadcast on Saturday, Shah had described the Congress’s
Rohith Vemula campaign as “vacuous”.
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