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  Rahul Gandhi writes to CMs of Congress-ruled states, urges them to enact 'Rohith Vemula Act'

  India | April 21, 2025 14:04 IST

  The proposed Rohith Vemula Act aims to provide a legal framework for preventing caste-based discrimination in educational institutions and ensuring accountability in cases of neglect or harassment.

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  Telangana Police report says Rohith Vemula was not a Dalit, gives clean chit to Smriti Irani, others

  May 03, 2024 20:47 IST

  The report's release, just 10 days before Telangana's Lok Sabha polls on May 13, adds a political dimension to the case. Rohith's suicide in 2016 sparked nationwide protests, particularly over allegations of discrimination against Dalit students.

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  Bharat Jodo Yatra: Rohith Vemula's mother joins Rahul Gandhi, extends solidarity

  India | November 01, 2022 16:47 IST

  Bharat Jodo Yatra: The Congress from its official Twitter handle and several party leaders tweeted pictures of Radhika Vemula walking with Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

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  SC notice to Centre on plea of mothers of Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi

  India | September 20, 2019 11:38 IST

  While Vemula, a Ph.D scholar at Hyderabad Central University had committed suicide on January 17, 2016, following alleged caste bias, Tadvi, a tribal student at TN Topiwala National Medical College, committed suicide on May 22 this year due to alleged caste-based discrimination by three doctors in her college.  

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  Mothers of Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi move SC for putting end to caste based bias in campuses

  India | August 28, 2019 23:05 IST

  The petition said these incidents are violative of the fundamental rights to equality, equal opportunity, right against discrimination, the abolition of untouchability, and right to life guaranteed under Article 14, 15, 16, 17 and 21 of the Constitution.

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  BJP seeks Rahul Gandhi's apology over Rohith Vemula issue

  India | June 20, 2018 18:10 IST

  Union Minister Piyush Goyal cited reports that Vemula's mother Radhika Vemula had accused Indian Union Muslim League, a Kerala-based party, of not giving her the promised Rs 20 lakh to attend political rallies where false allegations against the BJP were levelled.

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  IUML promised money, but they haven't used me for political gains: Rohith Vemula's mother

  India | June 20, 2018 19:20 IST

  “Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) sent us two cheques of Rs 2.5 lakh out of which one has bounced. We informed them & they said they will directly provide us money so that we can buy a house,” she added.

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  Rohith Vemula's mother accepts Rs 8 lakh compensation from University of Hyderabad

  India | February 21, 2018 14:22 IST

  Radhika Vemula said in a statement issued yesterday that she decided to accept the compensation for the death of her son on the advice of her lawyer and supporters.

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  ‘Rohith Vemula was a troubled individual; was unhappy for several reasons’, concludes probe panel report

  India | August 17, 2017 16:32 IST

  Vemula hanged himself in a hostel room on January 17 last year as he was allegedly upset over disciplinary action taken against him by the University of Hyderabad.

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  Rohit Vemula's suicide letter made me cry: Varun Gandhi

  Politics | February 22, 2017 11:19 IST

  BJP MP Varun Gandhi has recalled how he broke down after reading a suicide letter written by the Hyderabad University Ph.D scholar Rohit Vemula before he hanged himself on the campus in January 2016.

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  Rohith Vemula was not Dalit, says Guntur Collector; mother asked to provide proof

  India | February 14, 2017 22:25 IST

  The mother of University of Hyderabad research scholar Rohit Vemula, whose suicide in January last sparked a nationwide uproar, has been asked to prove she belonged to the Scheduled Caste.

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  ‘My name is Rohith Vemula and I am a Dalit’, old video stirs row

  India | October 18, 2016 12:07 IST

  An old video of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) research scholar Rohith Vemula, who allegedly committed suicide in January, has surfaced yesterday in which he claims his Dalit identity.

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  Rohith Vemula's mother falsely branded herself as Dalit, move to expel him most reasonable one, says probe

  India | October 06, 2016 12:34 IST

  The one man Judicial commission appointed by former HRD minister Smriti Irani to probe the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula has found that his mother had falsely branded herself as a Dalit to avail

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  ‘Rohith Vemula was not a Dalit’, says HRD Ministry probe panel; exonerates VC

  India | August 24, 2016 9:42 IST

  The one-man judicial commission, set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to look into the circumstances leading to the death of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University in January this year,

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  Will not remove cow carcasses anymore, vow a large congregation of Dalits in Una

  India | August 16, 2016 9:23 IST

  On a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his independence day speech to send a strong warning against elements trying to create social disharmony and underscored the need to upheld the rights of the weaker

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  Left parties indulged in politics over Vemula issue: Smriti Irani

  Politics | May 17, 2016 23:56 IST

  Smriti Irani today said it showed how some Left parties had indulged in politics over the incident related to death of scholar Rohith Vemula.

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  Congress, Left funded protests over Rohith Vemula’s death: former SFI leader

  Politics | May 13, 2016 14:21 IST

  a former student leader of the Left-affiliated Students Federation of India (SFI) has claimed that the protests in the aftermath of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide were sponsored by political parties which included the Congress, the Left

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  Labelling Kanhaiya Kumar as 'anti-national' is wrong, says Uddhav Thackeray

  Politics | April 24, 2016 22:21 IST

  Uddhav Thackeray today said instead of guiding the youth in the right direction, it has "given birth" to Rohith Vemula, Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar

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  Rohith Vemula's mother, brother embrace Buddhism

  India | April 14, 2016 14:34 IST

  Mother and brother of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide at Hyderabad Central University in January sparking strong protests across the country, today embraced Buddhism on the occasion of Dr BR Ambedkar's 125th birth anniversary.

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  Rohith Vemula's mother, brother to embrace Buddhism today

  India | April 14, 2016 10:28 IST

  The family of Dalith research scholar Rohith Vemula, who had committed suicide at Hyderbad Central University in January, would be converting to Buddhism in Mumbai today.