Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi has written to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, “requesting him to implement the Rohith Vemula Act in Karnataka” — a regulation named after a College of Hyderabad analysis scholar who died by suicide over alleged caste discrimination in 2016.
The Congress authorities in Karnataka has been planning to implement the Rohith Vemula Act to stop “exclusion or injustice” to college students based mostly on their social, financial, or spiritual background.
At its plenary in 2023, the Congress had handed a decision that if voted again to energy, it might enact a particular Act named after Rohith Vemula to guard and safeguard the proper to schooling and dignity of Dalits, tribal folks, Different Backward Courses (OBCs), and minorities.
In his letter to the Congress chief minister, Gandhi wrote, “the homicide of vibrant younger folks like Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi, and Darshan Solanki is just not acceptable”.
“It’s time to put a agency finish to this. I urge the Karnataka authorities to enact the Rohith Vemula Act in order that no little one of India has to face what Dr B R Ambedkar, Rohit Vemula and hundreds of thousands of others have needed to endure,” mentioned Gandhi.
Quoting Ambedkar in his letter, Gandhi wrote: “There was loads of meals with us. There was starvation burning inside us; with all this we have been to sleep with out meals; that was as a result of we might get no water, and we might get no water as a result of we have been untouchables.”
Quoting Ambedkar’s expertise at school, Gandhi wrote: “I knew I used to be an untouchable, and that untouchables have been subjected to sure indignities and discriminations. As an illustration, I knew that within the faculty I couldn’t sit within the midst of my classmates in keeping with my rank, however that I used to be to sit down in a nook on my own.”
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He mentioned that he is aware of that Siddaramaiah “would agree that what Dr B R Ambedkar confronted was shameful and shouldn’t be endured by any little one in India”. “It’s a disgrace that even as we speak, hundreds of thousands of scholars from Dalit, Adivasi and OBC communities need to face such brutal discrimination in our instructional system,” mentioned Gandhi.
In a put up on X, Gandhi mentioned that he wrote the letter after he met college students and academics from Dalit, adivasi, and OBC communities in Parliament not too long ago.
“Through the dialog, they informed me how they face caste-based discrimination in schools and universities,” mentioned Gandhi.
“Babasaheb Ambedkar had proven that schooling is the one means by which even the disadvantaged can turn out to be empowered and break the caste system. However it is rather unlucky that even after many years, lakhs of scholars are going through caste discrimination in our schooling system,” the Opposition Chief mentioned in his put up.
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The suicide of 25-year-old Vemula on January 17, 2016, contained in the college campus had triggered nationwide protests in opposition to casteism in academic establishments.