New Delhi: In the wake of the death of a Dalit scholar in Hyderabad Central University in January, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani will on Thursday hold a meeting with Vice-Chancellors of all Central Universities.
Smriti Irani, who will chair the meeting will discuss Rohith Vemula's death and the subsequent protests that followed.
Rohith's suicide had turned into a political firestorm, which forced Irani to form a panel to examine the ground realities. He committed suicide 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.
His stipend of Rs 25,000 had been stopped as well.
For the last few weeks student groups were demanding arrest of vice-chancellor Appa Rao as well as the ouster of union minister Bandaru Dattatreya and interim VC Dr Vipin Srivastava. They alleged that it was because of them Rohith took the extreme step. They have been accused of ostracizing Rohith and abetting the suicide.
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