Topic: ASA

"Rohith including five other Dalit scholars were socially boycotted by the University Administration in 2016 in HCU campus reminding us of the same caste untouchability and physical segregation that we have grown up since childhood." Sumeet Samod, a Dalit rapper and researcher from JNU said.

UDA formed in 2013 and led by the Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA), has joined with the Bahujan Students’ Front (BSF), the Dalit Students’ Union (DSU), the Muslim Students’ Federation (MSF), the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the Students’ Islamic Organization of India (SIO) and the Tribal Students’ Federation (TSF).

The Central University of Kerala is in turmoil as the student community protests casteist and discriminatory actions against students and teachers who dissent.  Students and teachers are protesting last three days, demanding an immediate revocation of the 'disciplinary actions' from university admission.

The student hunt in the Central University of Kerala continues with the unreasonable arrest of  Ganthoti Nagaraju, a Dalit Ph.D. scholar and an active member of Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) on exaggerated and false charges.

The student’s organisations like Ambedkar Students Association has been setting up these help desks since one and half decade. ASA initiated helpdesk in University of Hyderabad in the year 1993 aimed at assisting students from marginalized sections.

A Scholar who had published three research papers in reputed journals, willing to work and having aspirations to up-bring his family and community, was forced to commit suicide on 24th-Nov-2013, due to the strategic systemic negligence from the part of ACRHEM and University of Hyderabad Administration. The death of Madari Venkatesh is not a 'personal' problem, rather is the consequence of structural and institutional discrimination, and systematic exercise of exclusionary practices.