In the eye of a raging storm over suicide by a dalit research scholar, Hyderabad Central University Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile today

criticised attempts to "politicise" the issue and trashed talks about his being a "BJP man".

Rao also said disciplinary action against Rohith Vemula and four other dalit students was not taken under any pressure from the HRD Ministry or Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya.