Dalit student who protested against Modi evicted from guesthouse

January 23, 2016 11:57

Karan Nirmal and Amrendra Kumar Arya found themselves surrounded by security personnel soon after raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. Their mouths were forcibly shut as they were dragged away to preventive detention.

Shortly after he stepped out of custody, Nirmal, 31, was dissapointed and shocked to hear that the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University officials cancelled his stay at the University hostel as a punitive measure. Nirmal finds a glaring similarity between his eviction and the harassment faced by Hyderabad scholar Rohith Vemula.

"I voiced my dissent. For that I was evicted from the Siddhartha Boys' Hostel of the university and my boarding for the night cancelled even though my room was booked for two days. We had deposited Rs 200 for the boarding, said Nirmal, who was left to bear the nippy North Indian winter night without any roof. A copy of the hostel bill is with The Hindu.

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