Topic: Rohith Vemula

As they were not able to download the hall tickets online ,they went and enquired directly to EFLU Administration. Prakash Kona, the proctor of EFLU stated (orally), "You both were actively participating in all protests of Justice for Rohith Vemula everywhere , I have all the photographs of you two on my table"."

I come here today to speak to you as an Ambedkarite and not as a communist. But at the same time I want to say that being an Ambedkarite itself means that we follow the communist principle of fighting against inequality.

The brazen forms of casteism and misogyny inflicted on Radhika Vemula till date, Rohith's caste identity being "decided" in this brahmanical patriarchal society as coming from his biological father and not the struggling mother who raised him, the way in which she has been constantly absused and harassed by the government officials in the name of an "enquiry", reflect how caste and gender interplay thereby, reproducing the hierarchies of "purity" and "pollution" on a woman's body.

It was only under such pressure that the police released her after nearly 4 hours of detention. This is a mother who lost her son on this campus and just asked for a commemorative visit, which the university very harshly denied publicly

Ambedkarite and Muslim organizations organized the ‘Resistance March’ against institutionalized Brahmanism in Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday night, commemorating Rohith Vemula’s Shahadath Din.

Telengana Police detain Radhika Vemula, mother of Rohith Vemula, Sudipto Mondal, journalist from Hindustan times, Vijay Kumar Ambedkar Pedapudi, one of the socially boycotted student and witch hunted along with Rohith and other student activists.