[Hyderabad] Rahul Gandhi Sit on Day-Long Fast In Hyderabad ,BJP Calls It Vulturisation”.
Rahul Gandhi today commenced a day-long fast along with agitating students of Hyderabad Central University after participating in a candle light vigil in the wee hours.
The Congress Vice President spent about two hours with agitating students past midnight and participated in the candle light vigil along with 2,000 students to mark the birthday of Rohith, who would have turned 27 today.
Rahul returned to the protest site this morning to begin the fast, expressing solidarity with them.
.Rahul, who is visiting the campus for the second time in as many weeks, tweeted, “I am here today at the request of Rohith’s friends and family, to stand with them in their fight for justice.
Rohith’s mother Radhika and brother Raju were also present at the protest site.
As students raised slogans against Irani and Dattaretreya, Rahul intervened and politely told them not to shout ‘murdabad’ (a slogan wishing death to).
On The other Hand BJP slammed Rahul Gandhi’s second visit to the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) campus in as many weeks over the suicide of a Dalit scholar, charging him and the Congress with politicising the issue and dubbing the visit as “classic politics of vulturisation”.
“Rahul Gandhi and Congress are so politically bankrupt and unemployed that he has to politicise tragic death of a student repeatedly,” Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said.
He Asked “Why is Rahul Gandhi not in Chennai, where three girls’ committed suicide almost a week ago,”
“His desperate attempt to earn some petty political expediency, has brought him back to HCU campus. This is classic politics of vulturisation,” Rao said.
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.