Congress: Modi should have dismissed people by now

The Congress, which has been demanding immediate sacking of Union ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya in connection with the suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, on Sunday said if Prime Minister Narendra Modi “was sensitive”, he would have dismissed a number of persons.

“If Mr Modi was sensitive, he should have dismissed a number of persons,” Congress leader Kapil Sibal told reporters when asked whether at least Hyderabad Central University vice-chancellor Appa Rao should have been removed in view of the suicide of the PhD scholar.

Mr Sibal, who was HRD minister in the UPA government, said he believed that the PM will not take action against anybody.

Asked about Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s remarks calling for a rethink of the reservation policy, he said the problem is that RSS is not for dalits.

“It is not in their DNA to be pro-dalit,” he said.

Taking a dig at Mr Amit Shah who was re-elected as the BJP president, Mr Sibal said that under his leadership, the BJP will face one failure after another. “They have lost in Bihar and now they will lose in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and other states,” he remarked.