December 06, 2019
At the joint parliamentary committee meeting
The one-man judicial commission has been asked to submit its report within three
months, it is learnt. (Photo: PTI) The HRD ministry Thursday named former
Allahabad high court judge Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to probe the circumstances that
led to dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide in Hyderabad recently.The agenda of
the meeting was to discuss issues related to the implementation of reservations
in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and bodies under the petroleum ministry.
HRD
ministry sources said Justice Roopanwal will review the entire sequence of
events and its circumstances and establish facts and correctives.Vemula’s
suicide sparked a political row across India as a written complaint by Union
minister Bandaru Dattatreya against the alleged attack on an ABVP activist in
August, where he called the university a "den of casteist, extremist and
anti-national politicsâ€, led to five letters insulation
boards Factory from the HRD ministry.The HRD ministry Thursday named former
Allahabad high court judge Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to probe the circumstances that
led to dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide in Hyderabad recently. The
scholar’s death led to protests by students in several parts of the country.
At
the joint parliamentary committee meeting, members also raised strong objections
over the absence of the secretaries of the petroleum and telecom departments,
and decided to approach Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to complain about the
secretaries allegedly "undermining†parliamentary panels.. A student shouts
slogans demanding resignation of Smriti Irani during a protest.Earlier, a
fact-finding committee set up by the ministry gave its report on developments at
the university, after which it was decided a judicial commission would be set
up. Both HRD minister Smriti Irani and Mr Dattatreya have been under attack by
the Opposition, which has also demanded that both resign.
But since the
secretaries were not available, the panel could not take up the listed
agenda.Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, in his letter to the HRD ministry,
called the University of Hyderabad a "den of casteist, extremist and
anti-national politics†and complained that the ministry had been a "mute
spectator†to the attack on the ABVP activist.The joint parliamentary committee
on SC/ST welfare, chaired by BJP MP Faggan Singh, has voiced concern over
Vemula’s suicide and has proposed sending a delegation to the University of
Hyderabad, and also to IIT Madras to examine complaints of
injustice/discrimination against dalit students. They also sought her approval
for a tour to the University of Hyderabad and IIT Madras, that have been in the
news lately over alleged atrocities against dalits
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