'Smriti Irani Lied In Parliament', Says Rohith Vemula's Family

'Smriti Irani Lied In Parliament', Says Rohith Vemula's Family

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The family of Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad Central University scholar who killed himself last month, spoke to the media today. Here are the highlights of their address:

• Three of us were expelled from the University along with Rohith Vemula.
• This press conference has been called to expose the lies being propagated by Smriti Irani in parliament.
• On the day when Rohith died, no Police and doctors were allowed inside to revive Rohith Vemula
• This has malicious intent to divert the entire issue which has started troubling BJP.
• It was discovered by university officials at 7 pm that Rohith was dead.
• This was confirmed by the doctor who came out in open statement yesterday.
• She stated that Rohith was dead by that time itself.
• Video also circulated on Facebook which shows that Police was present in the room where Rohith died and his body was aside there.
• In the inquiry process of the proctorial board, there was a Scheduled Caste representative - this was not true because the decision was taken in Executive Council which does not have any single Dalit representative.
• Minutes of Nov 27 meeting, Vice Chancellor and chairman Apparao was appointed by HRD minister Smriti Irani.
• Among these 11 members, there were no SC/ST members.
• Page no 4, decision no 5 - it is clearly reported that in response to the HRD ministry.
• It is decided that students will not be allowed to stay in hostel and not permitted to participate in students elections.
• Absolute lie being spread by Smriti Irani.
• Police Commissioner clearly stated that there was no violence.
• On caste status of Rohith, she and Gehlot was referring to reports of ACP.
• He is not competent to investigate caste of a person.
• Mother of Rohith is Scheduled Caste, grandmother of Rohith who adopted his mother is Scheduled Caste.
• Caste certificate states Rohith is a Scheduled Caste.
• These lies by Smriti Irani are only to divert the issue as there is clear involvement of BJP and her officials.
• Sukhbir Singh Sandhu was present in parliament also.
• He wrote directly to Apparao to look into the matter that has been referred by minister Bandaru Dattatreya personally.
• Apparao without conducting any inquiry executed a sub-committee without making it known to us.
• He was head of the committee which had no SC/ST member.
• From Jan 4 to Jan 17, we had to stay out, there was no deliberation with students who were sleeping outside.
• In letter to Vice Chancellor, Rohith served notice that he was going to commit suicide.
• Despite that, this letter was never brought out by Smriti Irani.
• Why is she hiding this letter. Yesterday she was said to have quoted statements of Rohith on Facebook.
• He also raised many questions against RSS.
• Why is she afraid to talk about Rohith's statements against ABVP and RSS in parliament?
• We would like to put all this in front of Smriti Irani.

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