Hyderabad: Four Dalit students, whose suspensions were on Thursday revoked by the executive council of the Hyderabad Central University, have rejected the decision. Instead, the students have demanded the ouster of the university vice chancellor.
The students burnt a copy of the circular and demanded arrests in the case of Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula suicide.
This comes even as there is no end to the politics over the issue. After the visit of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a delegation of the Janata Dal United (JDU) will visit the university campus on Friday.
"We can't accept it because Rohith is no longer with us. We had been demanding revocation of suspension when he was alive. We now want arrests to be made, we want the VC to step down," one of the suspended students, Vijay Kumar, told CNN-IBN.
The circular said: "The Council after taking into account the extraordinary situation prevailing in the University, and after discussing the issue in detail, it resolved to terminate the punishment imposed on the students concerned with immediate effect.
"Further Professor P Appa Rao has appealed to the University community to maintain calmness and harmony under the extraordinary circumstances prevailing on the campus and repose faith in the internal mechanisms to resolve the issue and fervently urged all in the University to contribute to resuming regular class work, research activities and administrative work without further delay. He has also called upon all the teachers, students, officers and supporting staff to rise to the occasion."
Rohith, 26, committed suicide on Sunday by hanging himself in a hostel room, months after he and four other Dalit students were barred from the facility for allegedly attacking an ABVP leader. The five were denied access to all facilities in their campus, except their classrooms and workshops related to their subject of study.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to visit Ambedkar University in Lucknow and pay homage to BR Ambedkar.
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