YSR Congress today sought CBI inquirty into the conditions that forced dalit research scholar Rohit Vemula of Hyderabad Central University to commit suicide.

The opposition party strongly condemned the discrimination against the dalits in the institutes of higher learning such Hyderabad central university.

‘Dalits are being discriminated against in the University and the Vice Chancellor has been the main person behind the suicide of Rohit. We demand that action be taken against the VC and a CBI probe be ordered into the incident,’ party leader Nalla Suryaprakash said on Monday.

He alleged that the Vice Chancellor had the blessings of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and some central leaders.

The issue was boiling since long and with the suicide of the student, it had reached a flash point which the authorities were trying to hush up, he said adding that a CBI inquiry should be instituted with the dismissal of Vice Chancellor.
Mean while union HRD ministry has appointed a two-member committee to look into the whole gamut of issues that led to the present crisis.