Rahul Gandhi joins protesters at Hyderabad varsity

All India Congress Committee vice-president Rahul Gandhi, along with former Chief Minister of Meghalaya and Congress leader P.A. Sangma, on Saturday sat on fast with the agitating students of the University of Hyderabad (UoH).

The students are demanding that the university’s acting vice-chancellor Prof. Vipin Srivastava and P. Appa Rao, whose name is there in the police complaint lodged in connection with the death of research scholar Rohith Vemula, quit their posts for their complicity in the suicide of the scholar.

About 20 students from Osmania university also join the protest, demanding the resignation of the vice-chancellor.

Meanwhile, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has called for a bandh of colleges in Telangana in protest against the “politics over dead bodies” done by Mr. Gandhi in the Hyderabad Central University over the Rohith Vemula issue.