The BJP has called for an apology from Rahul Gandhi following the closure report filed by Telangana Police in the Rohith Vemula suicide case. Along with this, BJP also accused Congress and its allies of exploiting Dalits for political gains.
Pointing out that the Congress government is in power in Telangana, BJP asked: “Now that Telangana Police has filed a closure report in court, stating that Rohith Vemula was not a Dalit and his death was a suicide, will Rahul Gandhi apologise to the Dalits?”Accusing Rahul Gandhi of politicising the issue, BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya took to his official social media handle on X, and shared a video of his speech in Lok Sabha.Malviya captioned the video: “Rahul Gandhi used the floor of the House to politicise Rohit Vemula’s death for his ugly politics. Now that Telangana Police, under a Congress government, has filed a closure report, stating that Vemula did not belong to the SC community and died by suicide, will Rahul Gandhi apologise to the Dalits?”Meanwhile, Rohit Vemula mother Radhika Vemula met Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here on Saturday and urged him to see that “justice” is done to the family. Reddy assured her that an investigation would be conducted again into the University of Hyderabad student’s suicide in 2016 and that justice would be done, an official release said.Telangana DGP Ravi Gupta has already announced to conduct further investigation into the case in view of the doubts expressed by Rohith Vemula’s mother and others on the closure report. A petition will be filed in the court concerned requesting the Magistrate to permit further investigation into the case, he said in a statement on Friday night.Earlier, the police have filed a closure report before a local court in its probe into the death of Rohith Vemula, a student of the University of Hyderabad, claiming he was not a Dalit and died by suicide in 2016 as he feared that his “real caste” would be discovered.
