Continuing his Twitter tirade against BJP, Jana Sena Party Chief Pawan Kalyan today hit out at the party on the second day for its alleged treatment of Rohith Vemula, the research scholar in University of Hyderabad who committed suicide in January this year. He accused that the Centre took it personally in his case for reasons unknown. He further alleged that the punishment meted out drove him to suicide.
He hoped for a day ‘where our university will be more known for Academic Excellence than the ‘Battlegrounds’ for political parties. Stating that Vemula was protesting in a ‘democratic’ manner, he said, “There is no doubt that “Rohit Vemula” hated BJP like many millions of individuals.
But that doesn’t give them a license to harass individuals who doesn’t align or against them and that too when his protest was within ‘democratic means’. This applies to any group or party not to BJP alone.”
Even if Rohith Vemula has said something in haste about saffronisation with his university rival groups, the actor-turned politician said ‘Centre’ could have just seen it as a part of the ongoing students’ ideological disagreement.
And if their rivalry was causing law and order issues then they could have let the concern authority to enforce the disciplinary measures. But Centre took it personally in this case for reasons unknown, he further tweeted.
Stating that the punishment meted out to Rohith Vemula was through suspension and alienation from the campus drove him to suicide, he said instead a proper student counselling with a humane approach would have saved an intelligent student who was philosophical in nature.
“The most tragic part of Rohit Vemula Suicide was when anti-BJP parties were busy trying to gain a political mileage out of it, BJP and its allies were busy proving that Rohit was not a Dalit. But all of them have forgotten to answer, ‘how to prevent such young lives from committing suicides in future? Out of despair, disappointment and resentment…” he tweeted.
— Pawan Kalyan (@PawanKalyan) December 16, 2016
— Pawan Kalyan (@PawanKalyan) December 16, 2016
— Pawan Kalyan (@PawanKalyan) December 16, 2016
— Pawan Kalyan (@PawanKalyan) December 16, 2016
— Pawan Kalyan (@PawanKalyan) December 16, 2016
— Pawan Kalyan (@PawanKalyan) December 16, 2016
