Cong to meet Prez tomorrow on HCU issue: Shinde

March 28, 2016 19:49

Senior Congress leader Sushilkumar Shinde has said that his party will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday on the state of affairs at the Hyderabad Central University.

The former Home minister said his party will continue to fight for family of Rotith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar at HCU who committed suicide on January 17, till they get justice.

Speaking on violence of March 22 on varsity campus and subsequent arrest of 25 students and two faculty members, Shinde told reporters, "After having seen such a big incident, we will meet the President tomorrow along with other party MPs."

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