A group of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday launched an indefinite hungerstrike demanding justice for Rohith Vemula
A group of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday launched an indefinite hungerstrike demanding justice for Rohith Vemula
A group of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday launched an indefinite hungerstrike demanding justice for Rohith Vemula, amid growing outrage over the alleged suicide by the dalit research scholar at Hyderabad Central University (HCU).
Three students of the varsity, Suchishree, Lenin Kumar and Shubhanshu, have decided to sit on a fast to express solidarity with students who were on an indefinite hungerstrike at (HCU).
Seven students were forcibly hospitalised on Saturday on the fourth day of their stir at the Hyderbad University. A group of another seven students on Sunday sat on an indefinite hungerstrike. Other students from JNU will join the trio for a relay hungerstrike over the issue.
“The environment in which Rohith was forced to kill himself is faced by millions of dalit students who manage to reach higher education with great difficulty in our country. His suicide note will remain a powerful testimony to how our higher education system has institutionalised discrimination and hardships for dalits,” said Lenin Kumar, former president of the JNU’s students union.
Suchishree, who has also written an open letter to the government, said, “The only political motive that I have as a political individual is that no more institutional murders should take place in this country. This indefinite hungerstrike, I do not see as an appeal to the state, but as a mean to regain from the state the basic human dignity that is rightfully ours.”
Various student groups have been protesting over the issue in the national capital since last week.
