I am a Dalit, said Rohith Vemula in a video days before he died
October 17, 2016 18:43
Days after the Ministry of human resource development one-man committee report claimed that Rohith Vemula was not Dalit, an old video of the Hyderabad University research scholar has emerged.
In the video Rohit confirms that he was Dalit, however, took admission in the university in general quota.
"My name is Rohith Vemula... I'm a Dalit from Guntur district," asserted the PhD scholar in the video that his friends say they shot days before he hanged himself in his hostel room at the Hyderabad Central University in January this year.
Rohith Vemula, 26, killed himself days after he and four other students were suspended by the university and barred from its hostel. A month before his death, he had written to the university's vice chancellor Appa Rao about caste discrimination and said Dalit students should be given "a rope to hang themselves".
The Justice Roopanwal Commission report, submitted earlier this month, said there is no proof that Vemula's mother V Radhika belongs to the "Mala" Dalit community, with which the scholar identified.
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