Hours before Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was to visit the Hyderabad Central University to join a candlelight vigil to remember Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula on his birthday, the university has changed its interim Vice-Chancellor.
Dr Vipin Srivastava who took charge as the interim Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad Central University has proceeded for leave from the afternoon of January 29 and the next senior most professor Dr M Pariasamy will perform the duties of the V-C till further orders.A university official
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said Gandhi would participate in the candle march and also in the sit-in organized by the students on the Hyderabad University campus.
“Let us not say ‘murdabad’ to anybody,” Rahul Gandhi told protesters raising slogans against Smriti Irani.
Congress has been demanding the sacking of HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and also removal of Vice Chancellor Appa Rao in the wake of the suicide by the Dalit scholar.
This is Rahul’s second visit to Hyderabad since Vemula was found hanging in the varsity’s hostel room. The Congress vice-president had visited the University on January 19 following the suicide by the Dalit scholar and met the agitating students and the family members of Vemula.
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