Topic: Rohith Vemula

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.

Terms of Alliance: 1) The alliance shall be entered as two fronts, one ASA led front consisting of ASA, MSF and SIO, and the other front consisting of SFI, DSU, TSF, TVV. 2) Each front partners shall decide which organization would contest in the election for which post. 3) The Election shall be fought under a united banner without naming any organization.

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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.