A public convention under the banner of ‘People’s Movement for Rohith Act’ to redress caste discrimination faced by Dalit students in university spaces was held in Bangalore on Sunday at St. Joseph’s College of Law, where families and friends of Radhika Vemula were present.
“As the culprits escape every step of culpability, the Justice for Rohith Vemula movement at the University of Hyderabad continues to resist by never forgetting,” say the students of the University of Hyderabad.
In a public interest litigation filed by the mothers of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi assailing caste discrimination in higher educational institutions (HEIs), the Supreme Court on Friday directed the University Grants Commission to collate the total number of complaints of caste discrimination received under its 2012 regulations in universities and higher educational institutions in the country.
Radhika Vemula, Dalit woman activist and mother of Rohith Vemula Wednesday urged the Bahujans across India to engage in active political life and also rule the country.
Radhika Vemula, the Dalit rights activist and the mother of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, whose death had sparked off countrywide protests in 2016, joined Rahul Gandhi in his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
On Rohit Vemula’s fifth death anniversary, his brother Raja Vemula, recently enrolled advocate said he is dedicating his law degree to Rohit, the young Dalit scholar who took his life five years ago on this day at University of Hyderabad alleging caste discrimination.