Centre criticises Rahul for joining Hyd hunger strike

January 30, 2016 13:40

The Centre on Saturday criticised Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for joining the mass hunger strike at the University of Hyderabad campus to express solidarity with hunger-striking students over the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula.

"The Congress, Communist and other parties are trying to make it a political issue forgetting that nine such incidents took place during the Congress regime, he never bothered to go there. Now, they are shedding crocodile tears to gain political mileage, polluting atmosphere of Universities" Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu told ANI."This is a part of their anti-Modi campaign. All this is cheap politics," he added.

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