The Congress government in Karnataka has announced plans to implement the Rohith Vemula (Protection of SC/STs from Caste Discrimination in Higher Educational Institutions) Act...
Karnataka's Higher Education Minister MC Sudhakar has announced that the state government is preparing to introduce the Rohith Vemula Bill, aimed at preventing caste-based...
By naming the bill after Rohith Vemula, Congress wants to tap into the emotional resonance, though devoid of any factual relevance, to galvanise support from the SC, ST, and OBC Hindus. However, this bill risks being a draconian measure against general-category students and faculty, as they could be disproportionately targeted.
In the closure report, the police asserted that Rohith Vemula, the PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad who died by suicide, did not belong to the Scheduled Caste category. The police said Rohith Vemula died by suicide fearing that his real caste identity would be discovered.
In the 2016 Rohith Vemula death case, the Telangana Police filed a closure report saying he died by suicide fearing that his fake SC certificate will be exposesd
Despite being well aware that Rohit Vemula was not a Dalit and that his suicide had nothing to do with caste discrimination, the Congress party chose to politically exploit his untimely death in its manifesto.