Seasoned propagandist and occasional political worker, Yogendra Yadav, recently took to X to exploit the death of Rohith Vemula, peddling disinformation forged by the opposition to attack the Centre.
“My birth is a fatal accident – these words of Rohith Vemula represent not just an individual agony, but the structural reality of caste discrimination in our educational institutions. If universities are centres of knowledge, reason and freedom, why was Rohith Vemula forced to get tired of his identity politics? Where are the roots of this injustice? What are these forces that fear the idea of equality in society and institutionalise the politics of division? This question must be answered in honour of Rohit’s memory,” Yogendra Yadav tweeted on X.
“मेरा जन्म एक घातक दुर्घटना है”—रोहित वेमुला के ये शब्द केवल एक व्यक्तिगत पीड़ा नहीं, बल्कि हमारे शैक्षणिक संस्थानों में जातिगत भेदभाव की संरचनात्मक सच्चाई हैं।
— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) January 17, 2025
अगर विश्वविद्यालय ज्ञान, तर्क और स्वतंत्रता के केंद्र हैं, तो फिर रोहित वेमुला को अपनी पहचान की राजनीति से “थकने” पर… pic.twitter.com/5kigtq9Drw
Disregarding factual information about Vemula’s death, Yadav resorted to spreading fake news—a reflection of desperation that has taken hold among the Leftists after Modi’s return to the centre for the third time in a row.
Rohith Vemula‘s 2016 suicide escalated into a massive political controversy within the country, with the unfortunate event being exploited to launch attacks against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and to further perpetrate casteist agenda by the opposition and their left-liberal ecosystem. However, on 3rd May of last year, the Telangana Police presented a closure report to the Telangana High Court which indicated that Rohith Vemula did not fall under the Scheduled Caste (SC) category. He was a doctoral student at the University of Hyderabad.
It informed, “There is no evidence of any fact or circumstance available on the record which dragged him to commit suicide and no one is responsible for his death.” The report further clarified that he ended his life because “he had his own problems and was not happy with worldly affairs. If he had been angry with the decision of the university, certainly he would have written in specific words or would have indicated in this regard. But he did not do the same. It shows that the circumstances prevailing in the university at the time were not the reason for Rohith’s death.”
The authorities had exonerated former Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreya, former Legislative Council Member N Ramachander Rao, former Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile, members of the ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad), and former Union Minister Smriti Irani who was the HRD (Minister of Human Resource Development) at the time and faced severe backlash after the incident.
The report also indicated that Rohith Vemula was aware that he did not belong to the Scheduled Caste and acquired the SC certificate from his mother. It posited that the truth might have been a relentless source of apprehension for him because if revealed it could have led to the revocation of his academic degrees and possibly legal action.
Nonetheless, akin to Yogendra Yadav’s ideological allies such as the Congress party, who have exploited the situation to launch attacks against the saffron party and have tried to keep the issue alive despite the report, he is following suit. Shortly after the development, the Director General of Police (DGP) for Telangana declared that they had opted to pursue additional inquiry into the case. “As some doubts have been expressed by the mother and others of the deceased, Rohit Vemula, on the investigation conducted, it has been decided to conduct further investigation into the case. A petition will be filed in the court concerned requesting the Hon’ble Magistrate to permit further investigation into the case,” he informed.
Yogendra Yadav is now also attempting to rekindle the quelled tensions so that the issue stays prominent and continues to foster wedges in society.
