Blame game continues over Dalit scholar’s suicide

Hyderabad : The war of words between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress Party escalated over the death of research scholar Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide at a Hyderabad university on Sunday.Here is who said what on the Dalit scholar suicide in Hyderabad. Met students of the Ambedkar Students Association, Hyderabad University. These students were protesting against the unjust expulsion and social boycott of Dalit students on campus: Rahul Gandhi’s tweet after meeting students. Don’t want to make political statement. My condolences to family of deceased. Government doesn’t intervene in the administration of universities. Two-member fact finding team will submit report on this: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani. The HRD Ministry must not be targeted in this case. Nevertheless, we are focusing on the matter at hand. A fact finding committee is doing its job and investigating the incident. Action will be taken only after we get the report: Minister of State (MoS) for Human Development Upendra Kushwaha. Rahul Gandhi has acted negatively on everything. Only because of this attitude the Congress is suffering. We are trying to heal the wound and the Congress Party wants to gain political mileage out of it. This won’t happen: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Minority Affairs and senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.